Kolkata: Even as West Bengal is voting within the first part of the meeting elections, an audio warfare broke out between the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday amid claims that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee dialled saffron social gathering chief Pralay Pal and sought his help to win the Nandigram seat the place she is pitted towards her former protégé Suvendu Adhikari.
Pal in a video launched by the BJP claimed that the Chief Minister had dialled him up and urged him to “work for her and return to the TMC”.
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The TMC has, nonetheless, rubbished the accusations and claimed the voice within the purported name recording is just not verified.
The TMC additionally put out a counter audio-tape of a dialog between two BJP leaders. The ruling social gathering in West Bengal has alleged that BJP’s Mukul Roy may be heard briefing social gathering chief Shishir Bajoria on methods to affect the Election Commission within the purported audio clip, which the TMC additionally shared on Twitter.
The TMC has alleged Roy tells Bajoria within the audio clip that they need to strategy the ballot physique asking for adjustments in guidelines in order that others are allowed to be sales space brokers and never simply in localities or else the BJP received’t be capable of give brokers in a big part of cubicles.
The TMC has claimed that guidelines had been modified in favour of the BJP with out in depth session with different political events quickly after the saffron social gathering made the illustration earlier than the Election Commission.
Meanwhile, TMC chief Subrata Mukherjee whereas reacting to the BJP’s audio clip claims stated that his is proud to have a frontrunner like Mamata Banerjee, including placing efforts to persuade an environment friendly employee to come back again exhibits social gathering’s “true democratic nature”.
“In fact when they end the conversation, both sides showed extreme courtesy. We appreciate that. Mamata wished him well despite his differences,” he stated, including this “only shows how Mamata Banerjee values her party workers”.
Taking the BJP to process, Mukherjee additional stated “the kind of spin they want to give, they will never succeed”.
The BJP too left no stones unturned in taking potshots on the TMC with social gathering chief Shishir Bajoria stating Mamata Banerjee has now realized her social gathering is shedding the elections.
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“In the audiotape that I played now, state CM is seeking help from a BJP (Nandigram) district vice-president and requesting him to return to TMC. This shows that she has realised that TMC is losing the election,” ANI quoted Bajoria as saying.
BJP’s IT cell head Amit Malviya, who’s the saffron social gathering’s West Bengal co-in-cost, additionally used the event to take a jibe at Mamata Banerjee stating “Pishi is definitely losing Nandigram and TMC Bengal…”.
“Massive! Mamata Banerjee calls Proloy Pal, BJP’s district Vice President in Nandigram and pleads for help! Proloy tells her that he was humiliated in TMC and he along with this family cannot betray the BJP. Pishi is definitely losing Nandigram and TMC Bengal… [sic],” he tweeted.
Voting for the 294-member West Bengal Assembly is being held in eight phases. Polling for the Nandigram Assembly seat will happen on April 1.
The final part might be held on April 29 whereas the outcomes might be declared on May 2.
