Mamata Banerjee
Bengal polls: BJP claims Mamata Banerjee requested its leader to work for TMC during election in Tamluk, releases audio clip
Kolkata/IBNS: Releasing a call recording, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday claimed that Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee had sought help from a BJP leader in the West Bengal assembly election.
Posting an audio clip of the alleged conversation between Mamata Banerjee and TMC-turned-BJP leader from East Medinipur's Tamluk, Pralay Pal, BJP's IT head Amit Malviya tweeted: "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."
Massive! Mamata Banerjee calls Proloy Pal, BJP’s district Vice President in Nandigram and pleads for help!
— Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) March 27, 2021
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...#AmarVoteBJPKe pic.twitter.com/EqKEwvsy3Z
In the 2.41 min-long audio clip, authenticity of which has not been verified by IBNS independently, it is heard that a female voice (BJP claims it is the voice of Mamata Banerjee) was praising the leadership of BJP leader Pralay Pal and requesting him to work for TMC in the election.
It is also heard in the audio clip that the BJP leader clearly rejected the female voice's proposal and told her that he was with Suvendu Adhikari as well as the entire Adhikari family.
BJP leader Pralay Pal also claimed that he had received a call from the TMC supremo on Saturday morning.
"Mamata Banerjee over the phone requested me to work for her party in the election as she is contesting from Nandigram," Pralay Pal said.
"I directly told her that I am with the BJP and will be with this party, and will continue my fight to ensure that Suvendu Adhikari wins the battle in Nandigram," he added.
BJP leader Jay Prakash Majumdar said that the incident had exposed the condition of the Trinamool Congress in the state.
"TMC's condition is so poor in West Bengal that Mamata Banerjee has understood that she will lose the election in Nandigram and that's why she is asking help from our leader," Majumdar said.
Reacting on the matter, TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh said, "The authenticity of the audio clip is not verified yet. Even if the clip is authentic, what is the problem if Mamata Banerjee calls an ex-leader of her party."
"She has the right to call anyone in the state and I would like to advise BJP not to consider Mamata Banerjee's affability as her weakness," Ghosh added.
(Note: The authenticity of the audio clip has not been verified by IBNS independently)
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