Election Commission Rejects Trinamool Request For Recount In Nandigram

New Delhi:

The Election Fee has rejected the Trinamool Congress’s attraction for a recount of votes at Nandigram, the place Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had confronted her aide-turned- arch rival Suvendu Adhikari.  The Returning Officer has mentioned that the end result shall be formally declared after the VVPAT slips are tallied with the votes on the Digital Voting Machines. After a day of yo-yo competitors. the outcomes this night indicated that the Chief Minister had misplaced to Mr Adhikari by 1,736 votes within the contest that was the centre-piece of the meeting election within the state.

The Trinamool Congress had declared the counting course of “fishy”. Ms Banerjee alleged “malpractices” and mentioned she would method the courts.

“Let the Nandigram individuals give no matter verdict they need, I settle for that. Nandigram was a sacrifice that was wanted within the bigger victory. We’ve got received the state,” mentioned the Chief Minister, whose get together is heading for a stupendous 210-plus seat victory. “However I’ll go to the court docket as a result of I’ve heard there have been some malpractices,” she had mentioned earlier this night.

The Chief Minister’s announcement this night got here amid a lot confusion with the Election Fee web site updations operating excruciatingly slowly.  Even round 10.30 pm, the positioning confirmed partial outcomes from Nandigram, by which the Chief Minister seemed to be main.

“One thing is fishy about Nandigram, do not you assume? A celebration wins practically three-fourths of all of the seats within the state and the Chief Minister loses her seat – one thing very fishy went on in Nandigram,” senior Trinamool chief Derek O’Brien informed NDTV.

Ms Banerjee had trailed Mr Adhikari for half the day as counting progressed. However Trinamool mentioned it was to be anticipated because the votes belonged to a majority-community block. The tables can be turned, they mentioned, as soon as the votes from minority dominated areas are counted. By the night, the competition had turn out to be a cliffhanger, with Ms Banerjee overcoming a ten,000-plus hole in votes and pulling ahead. Thereafter, the outcomes went yo-yo with each spherical.

For Trinamool, which is heading for a 210-plus seat victory in opposition to an enormous problem by the BJP’s vastly highly effective election equipment, the Chief Minister’s defeat in Nadigram shall be an acute embarrassment.

Nandigram was the place which had catapulted Ms Banerjee to energy a decade in the past. However the groundwork was mentioned to be performed by Suvendu  Adhikari, who was considered one of Ms Banerjee’s closest aides.

The Chief Minister – stung by his defection in December – had taken the battle to his residence turf, declaring that she would contest from Nandigram, quitting her common seat in Kolkata’s Bhowanipur.

What adopted was a deeply polarising marketing campaign by which Mr Adhikari had tagged the Chief Minister a “begum” and warned folks that votes for her will result in the creation of a “mini Pakistan”.

Ms Banerjee had retaliated saying that she was the daughter of a Brahmin who is aware of her scriptures. Her Chandi paath  in Nandigram a day earlier than the submitting of nomination, the damage to her leg the very subsequent day and her supply of speeches from her wheelchair had been the excessive factors of the red-hot marketing campaign.