Suvendu Adhikari hits back at Mamta Banerjee’s Poll Rigging Remark
West Bengal is in the middle of its second round of assembly elections today and 142 seats are up for voting. The day started on a very tense note because of the elections in the Bhabanipur constituency.
Mamata went booth hopping before 8 a.m.
Mamta was out before 8 a. m. visiting booths in her own constituency Bhabanipur. She stopped outside a booth in Chakraberia and started talking to reporters about what she was witnessing.
Her main complaint was that the CRPF was ignoring court orders and that observers who had been brought in from other states were just following BJP 's instructions blindly. She also pointed out that all TMC posters near the booths had been taken down.She did not hold back with her words either. She called what these outside officials were doing ‘terrorism’ and said they were running loose doing whatever they pleased. She also said that the TMC councillor from Ward 70 was being blocked from moving around, that party workers were being picked up, and that she and Abhishek had not slept the entire night. She asked the Election Commission of India (ECI) to do something about it right away.
BJP hits back
The BJP brushed off everything she said and called it an attempt to create chaos because the TMC could sense that people were fed up with them. BJP state chief Samik Bhattacharya went as far as saying that this is the best election Bengal has seen in 50 years with proper arrangements both inside and outside the booths.
Suvendu Adhikari who is fighting against Mamata in Bhabanipur simply said she will lose and appreciated the way the Election Commission handled things on the ground.
Things were messy in several places
TMC leader and MP, Abhishek Banerjee also took a dig at the observers and said they were clearly taking orders from people sitting in Delhi and UP and were crossing every line that the law and Election Commission guidelines set for them.On the other side some voters in North 24 Parganas pointed fingers at Mamata herself and accused her of sending people to scare voters away from booths.In Baranagar the EVM at Ward 72 stopped working and had to be changed five times. Even after all that the voting still had not started and the people standing in line were furious.
Why today's voting matters so much
South Bengal has always been TMC's strongest ground and this phase covers exactly that region, so the pressure on BJP and TMC is massive. The first phase had crossed 93% voter turnout which was a record and shows how charged up people are about this election. Bhabanipur is the one seat everyone is watching the closest.
Mamata went booth hopping before 8 a.m.
Mamta was out before 8 a. m. visiting booths in her own constituency Bhabanipur. She stopped outside a booth in Chakraberia and started talking to reporters about what she was witnessing.
Her main complaint was that the CRPF was ignoring court orders and that observers who had been brought in from other states were just following BJP 's instructions blindly. She also pointed out that all TMC posters near the booths had been taken down.She did not hold back with her words either. She called what these outside officials were doing ‘terrorism’ and said they were running loose doing whatever they pleased. She also said that the TMC councillor from Ward 70 was being blocked from moving around, that party workers were being picked up, and that she and Abhishek had not slept the entire night. She asked the Election Commission of India (ECI) to do something about it right away.
BJP hits back
The BJP brushed off everything she said and called it an attempt to create chaos because the TMC could sense that people were fed up with them. BJP state chief Samik Bhattacharya went as far as saying that this is the best election Bengal has seen in 50 years with proper arrangements both inside and outside the booths.
Suvendu Adhikari who is fighting against Mamata in Bhabanipur simply said she will lose and appreciated the way the Election Commission handled things on the ground.
Things were messy in several places
TMC leader and MP, Abhishek Banerjee also took a dig at the observers and said they were clearly taking orders from people sitting in Delhi and UP and were crossing every line that the law and Election Commission guidelines set for them.On the other side some voters in North 24 Parganas pointed fingers at Mamata herself and accused her of sending people to scare voters away from booths.In Baranagar the EVM at Ward 72 stopped working and had to be changed five times. Even after all that the voting still had not started and the people standing in line were furious.
Why today's voting matters so much
South Bengal has always been TMC's strongest ground and this phase covers exactly that region, so the pressure on BJP and TMC is massive. The first phase had crossed 93% voter turnout which was a record and shows how charged up people are about this election. Bhabanipur is the one seat everyone is watching the closest.
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