The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Monday submitted a memorandum to the Election Commission of India (ECI) towards prime leaders of BJP for “spinning false narrative of brutal incident in Cooch Behar district”. Mamata Banerjee-led TMC has additionally accused the BJP leaders for “instigating violence against the electorate in West Bengal”.
In the memorandum, the TMC has quoted BJP leaders like Dilip Ghosh, Rahul Sinha, Sayantan Basu and Arjun Singh for allegedly making inflammatory statements throughout their respective ballot campaigns or via tweets.
“Shockingly, instead of condemning the acts of violence of CAPF of murdering four innocent people, top brass of BJP has been actively condoning the murder and brazenly suggesting that more innocent lives should have been lost at the hands of the CAPF. Aside from encouraging similar spells of violence in the ongoing elections in West Bengal, BJP has also been concocting a false and misleading narrative around the unfortunate incident at Sitalkuchi. The same is appalling, disgraceful and in gross violation of the law,” TMC stated in the memorandum.
“BJP appears to have lost sight of the notion of free, fair and fearless polls, while the Election Commission of India watches as a silent spectator,” the social gathering additional stated.
The TMC has additional requested the ballot watchdog to “immediately initiate appropriate strict legal action Dilip Ghosh, Rahul Sinha, Sayantan Basu, Arjun Singh, Saumitra Khan, Suvendu Adhikari, and BJP for their inflammatory, instigatory, inciting statements and openly threatening the electorate and restrain them from campaigning for remaining phases.”
This comes hours after a BJP delegation at the moment submitted memorandum to the ECI concerning alleged violation of mannequin code of conduct by TMC chief Sujata Mondal Khan. BJP has claimed that assertion made by Khan towards the Scheduled Caste group of West Bengal and terming them beggars by nature is a extremely disparaging insulting assertion.
Four folks had been killed as central forces opened fireplace allegedly after coming beneath assault from locals, who “attempted to snatch their rifles” in Sitalkuchi in Cooch Behar district, police stated. The Election Commission ordered stopping the voting train at polling station quantity 126 after the incident the place a repoll will probably be held later.
Votes polled in the eight-phase elections to 294 meeting seats in West Bengal will probably be counted on May 2.
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