West Bengal assembly elections: 24-hr campaign ban on BJP’s Sayantan Basu, TMC’s Sujata Mondal Khan

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NEW DELHI: Ahead of the sixth section of the assembly election in West Bengal, the Election Commission on Sunday (April 18) imposed a 24-hour campaigning ban on BJP chief Sayantan Basu and Trinamool Congress chief Sujata Mondal Khan over their latest speeches. According to experiences, the campaigning ban on BJP and Trinamool Congress leaders will come into impact from 7 pm on Sunday. 

According to ANI report, the ballot panel banned BJP chief Sayantan Basu for twenty-four hours from campaigning over his ‘extremely provocative remarks’ over the latest Cooch Behar firing wherein 5 individuals misplaced their lives. The ballot panel had on April 15 issued a discover to Sayantan Basu for his alleged ‘inflammatory’ comment throughout a speech and requested him to elucidate his stand inside 24 hours. The discover mentioned the ballot panel had acquired a criticism in opposition to Basu over his speech in North 24 Parganas’ Baranagar. The Commission mentioned his speech was discovered to be in violation of the mannequin code and provisions of the Representation of the People Act and the Indian Penal Code.

“(Barely audible) l, Sayantan Basu, am here to tell you that don’t try to play too much. We will play the game of Shitalkuchi. They killed 18 years old Ananda Barman…He was the brother of the BJP’s Shakti Pramukh. We did not have to wait for long…(Barely audible) Four of them were shown the way to heaven. “There was a dialogue within the movie ‘Sholay’ you realize — should you kill one we are going to kill 4 of you. Shitalkuchi witnessed it — should you kill one we are going to kill 4 of you…,” the EC discover mentioned, quoting parts of his speech.

On the opposite hand, Sujata Khan has been banned by the fee over her ‘disparaging remarks’ agsinst the Scheduled Caste group. Earlier, the EC had requested her to elucidate why her standing as ‘star campaigner’ shouldn’t be withdrawn.

According to a portion of her remarks reproduced within the discover, the TMC chief had reportedly mentioned that “as there is scarcity of resources in the schedule caste families, no matter how much, Mamata Bandyopadhyay has helped them, the scarcity will not go”. 

“As there a is a saying, some are actually beggars and others are beggars by nature. The schedule castes here are beggars by nature, and in spite of Mamata Bandyopadhyay (CM Mamata Banerjee) helping them so much, still they have been sold to BJP at a petty amount and are now torturing us,” based on Khan’s remarks reproduced within the discover. 

(With PTI inputs)

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