Team News Riveting
Kolkata, April 24
As the assembly election results are drawing closer, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had fired a fresh salvo on the poll panel threatening to move to the Apex Court once the process was completed.
Since the start of election process in the hyper sensitive state of West Bengal, the Trinamool Congress Chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had been targeting the Election Commission. Taking leaf out of former American President Donald Trump’s move, she had now announced to knock the doors of court of law.
Claiming that Election Commission had instructed officials to arrest TMC leaders during the Assembly elections, she said that she would approach the Supreme Court to hold fresh ‘neutral elections’ in the state.
In a press conference held via video conferencing, Mamata Banerjee questioned the role of the Election Commission in the state elections, alleging that the poll panel was working to help BJP. She alleged that the EC was trying to make sure that the TMC workers can’t vote against BJP.
She further added, ‘if the police detain anyone illegally, their family members go to the police station and sit there, gherao the police station, ask why illegal detention has been done, if needed go to the court. We will move everywhere from the high court to the supreme court. File FIR as soon as someone is detained illegally’.
She has said that the election in West Bengal was stretched to eight phases to help BJP. In the latest episode, the reason for her outburst against the poll panel was that the panel refused to club the remaining phases of the election citing the COVID-19 pandemic. EC said that once the schedule had been announced, it could not be changed now as the gap between different stages of the poll process was fixed as per law, and if the phases were clubbed, the gap for the later phases would be truncated.
Mamata forget to note that the U.S. Supreme Court last month disposed of the last of three cases brought to the justices by former President Donald Trump challenging his election loss, bringing a muted end to his futile quest in the courts to hold onto power.
