New Delhi: The BJP on Friday (March 19) requested the Election Commission (EC) to take authorized action against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for her feedback on Union Home Minister Amit Shah alleging that he’s “running” the ballot physique.
In its illustration to the EC, the BJP workforce submitted part of Banerjee’s speech at a rally in Bankura on March 16 the place she had stated, “Who is running the election commission, Amit Shah, are you running the election commission?”
BJP accused the West Bengal CM of operating a “smear campaign” against Shah. The BJP delegation together with Union ministers Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Debasree Chaudhuri, senior social gathering leaders Bhupender Yadav and Anil Baluni, additionally urged the election physique to deploy polling officers and central forces inside polling cubicles, PTI reported.
“The above-mentioned cases are false, fraudulent, derogatory allegations and are made with none foundation in legislation or in reality. A smear marketing campaign is being run to tarnish the picture & status of Shri Amit Shah ji and different senior leaders of BJP, with the intent to unfold misinformation and thereby affect the voters in a wrongful method,” the illustration stated.
“That we request the Election Commission to intervene urgently by taking applicable authorized action against Ms. Mamata Banerjee for her continued fraudulent, baseless and abusive follow and to move a prohibitory order, in any other case it’d spoil the electoral setting, the place abusing and spreading false information will develop into inevitable and the norm,” it added.
“That you’re requested to kindly instantly censure Ms Mamata Banerjee, from additional speeches. Further, take applicable authorized action her for her current and previous conduct in gross contempt of and in blatant violation of mannequin code of conduct and electoral legal guidelines as elucidated above,” the BJP illustration stated.
Meanwhile, earlier on Friday, a workforce of Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders together with Saugata Roy, Mahua Moitra and Yashwant Sinha met EC in Delhi to debate points associated to free and truthful conduct throughout the polls.
Ahead of the upcoming polls, West Bengal has develop into a battleground for the rivals BJP and TMC. The polls for the 294-member state Assembly will probably be held in eight phases ranging from March 27. The counting of votes will probably be accomplished on May 2.
