West Bengal Election 2021: On the rally on Tuesday, Mamata Banerjee didn’t mince phrases. (File)
Kolkata:
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s feedback concerning the Election Fee at a rally in Bankura on Tuesday has introduced a immediate response from the ballot physique, which stated her statements searching for conferences are “belittling” it.
The alternate marked a brand new low within the ongoing rancour between the celebration and ballot physique, which began after the alternative of the state police chief by the Fee earlier this month.
Within the unusually sharp letter, Deputy Election Commissioner Sudeep Jain wrote: “However the above conferences in Kolkata and in Delhi, whether it is said by honourable CM that the fee ought to meet political events, it is just an try and belittle the establishment of fee with repeated innuendos and averments”.
The Fee, Mr Jain wrote, “maintains the place that they might not wish to carry on being put within the dock for alleged proximity to any political entity and many others. Nevertheless, if CM persists in creating and making an attempt to perpetuate this delusion for causes greatest identified to her, it’s singularly unlucky, and it is just for CM to adjudge as to why she is doing so.”
Because the removing of the police chief, the Trinamool has made no secret of its reservations concerning the Fee. On the rally on Tuesday, Ms Banerjee didn’t mince phrases.
“I’m asking with respect to the Election Fee. Who’s operating the Election Fee? Amit Shah, are you operating it? We would like a free and truthful election however who’s Amit Shah? Who’s he to information the Election Fee? He’s interfering within the work of the Election Fee… And that is working towards us. My safety in-charge has additionally been eliminated. What do they need? Do they need to kill me?” she had stated.
The Trinamool Congress has been respiratory fireplace for the reason that Chief Minister got injured in Nandigram on Wednesday final week. Its reactions had grown sharper with the Fee’s refusal to just accept the celebration’s declare that it was the end result on an try on her life, saying there was no proof.
The Chief Minister had made it a degree to hit the marketing campaign path in a wheelchair snice. At each rally, she has been talking of her accidents and asserting that although her wounds are painful, they might not cease her.
“I’ve been injured within the head many instances. I’ve been injured within the hips many instances. I’ve overcome all these accidents. If I give in to my ache and lie down then BJP will trigger ache for the individuals. I really feel individuals’s ache is extra essential than my ache,” she stated in Bankura on Tuesday.
Within the letter, Mr Jain indicated that they’ve seen the media experiences of the rally, the place she has raised “a few of these points”, talked about earlier in a letter to the Fee, despatched on March 14.
“Within the absence of an authorised textual content” of the rally speech, they have been responding to the Chief Minister’s letter, he wrote, enclosing a duplicate of the report after which that they had suspended Ms Banerjee’s safety in-charge Vivek Sahay.
The Fee stated the Chief Minister had met with an accident and held Mr Sahay liable for the violation of her Z-Plus safety protocol. Mamata Banerjee’s bullet-proof automotive was occupied by the safety in-charge, the Fee had stated.
The report it enclosed additionally talked about the dearth of immediate response from her driver and her safety personnel when her car was surrounded by a crowd.