West Bengal Assembly polls 2021
TMC will sue ECI after Bengal assembly polls to ensure fair polls in future : Mamata
Kolkata/IBNS: The Trinamool Congress (TMC) will move the Supreme Court against the Election Commission of India after the West Bengal assembly polls to ensure free and fair elections in the future, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has said, according to media reports.
She also asked her party activists and family members to gherao police stations if any of her party workers are arrested 'illegally' night before the elections, file complaints and move court, said a Hindustan Times report.
“In a Whatsapp group, ECI observers were instructing district officials and state police to arrest TMC goons and keep them in preventive detention. They are saying ‘as per plan’. TMC workers have been given the name of ‘trouble mongers’. I have decided to move the SC to ensure elections are held impartially in future,” said Banerjee at a virtual press conference, the report stated.
She claimed that she also has the transcript of the chats, the report added.
Earlier this month, the Election Commission imposed a ban on the TMC chief for urging her party workers to gherao the central forces.
Right from the announcement of the eight-phase assembly polls in West Bengal, TMC has been at loggerheads with Election Commission accusing it of acting at the behest of the BJP-led Centre.
“The BJP won’t even get 70 seats. The Congress-Left alliance may get at the most 20– 25 seats, or even less. You don’t have the power to stop TMC,” Mamata said while hitting out at the ECI.
The Election Commision hasn't responded to the West Bengal chief minister's tirade.
However, BJP leader Samik Bhattarjee said Banerjee's 'wild allegations' is a clear sign that she is unnerved as she knows that her government will be ousted on May 2.
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