Bengal polls 2021: TMC hints at role of BJP insider in leaking ‘Mukul Roy-Bajoria audio clip’
The Trinamool Congress on Sunday hinted that the audio tape in which BJP nationwide vice-president Mukul Roy purportedly informed one other chief Shishir Bajoria about the way to affect the Election Commission was leaked by somebody in the saffron camp.
Reacting to Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s allegation that the discharge of the audio clip by the Mamata Banerjee-led celebration proved that telephones of opposition leaders had been being tapped in the state, the TMC’s nationwide spokesperson Derek OBrien stated that it was as much as the BJP to seek out out who had leaked it.
“If there is a conversation between A and B, logic demands that either A or B has leaked the information,” O’Brien informed a press convention in Kolkata.
“We were so far thinking that Khela Hobe (game will happen) means the battle between the TMC and the BJP. Now there seems to be another group. Let them (BJP) figure it out by themselves,” he stated indicating that there’s a disgruntled camp in the saffron celebration which has leaked the audio clip.
O’Brien additionally requested the members of the media to seek out out who was behind the leaking of the audio tape. The TMC on Saturday launched to the media an audio clip of the purported dialog between Roy and Bajoria, who can also be an industrialist.
In the audio clip, Roy is heard telling Bajoria to persuade the EC to permit polling brokers, even from exterior a given constituency, to perform at all polling stations.
“See, we have to include this point while meeting the EC. We have to say that this rule that polling agents can only be deputed in their localities should be changed. The only criteria should be that the person is a citizen of the state. The BJP won’t be able to have its agents in a large number of booths otherwise,” Roy purportedly informed Bajoria.
Polling brokers of events, underneath the existent guidelines, are allowed solely at cubicles in localities the place they usually reside. The rule had been relaxed final week to permit brokers to be appointed from any half of an meeting constituency.
At a press convention in New Delhi, the Union house minister hit out at the TMC claiming that the discharge of the audio exhibits that telephones of opposition leaders had been being tapped in West Bengal.
The TMC claimed that the audio clip had “blown the lid off” the nexus between the BJP and the Election Commission.
O’Brien stated that the ballot panel apparently modified the time examined provision at the behest of the BJP which does not have sufficient individuals to deploy as brokers in each sales space and the TMC opposed this alteration.
“The BJP is literally desperate. They (BJP) have got together all agencies. They are doing this to counter Mamata Banerjee and her development initiatives,” the Rajya Sabha MP stated.
However, no such ploy will have the ability to cease Banerjee’s victory and “the gas balloon of (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi and Shah will be deflated on May 2” when votes shall be counted, he stated.
Referring to Shah’s assertion that the BJP will win over 200 seats in the 294-member West Bengal meeting, O’Brien stated that the senior BJP chief has a poor observe report in making such predictions.
“Shah had predicted a landslide victory for the BJP in Bihar in 2015 assembly polls and his party got much fewer seats. In Delhi, the BJP had got a few seats in 2015 and 2020 assembly polls. Similar is the case with Jharkhand and Maharashtra in recent times,” he stated.
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