West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday stated she walked out of a meeting with chief election commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar at his dilemma of job in Delhi, accusing him of “insulting, disrespecting and humiliating’ her when a delegation of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) went to meet him in his dilemma of job in Unusual Delhi on Monday.
“We boycotted the CEC and walked out. We were insulted, disrespected and humiliated. I even like by no design considered this form of CEC. He is very smug. He behaved so badly with us. We meet him to pick out up justice. We by no design got justice.,” Banerjee told newshounds in Unusual Delhi after rising from Nirvachan Sadan, the Election Price of India’s (ECI) headquarters.
“I even like considered many CECs – SY Quraishi and TN Seshan. They were very sturdy. They by no design became a parrot for any political celebration. They by no design became a His Master’s narrate,” she added.
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Banerjee had led a 14-member delegation including TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee and MP Kalyan Banerjee, and participants of “SIR affected households” from West Bengal.
Banerjee and the TMC like been worrying that the ECI stop the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the pronounce’s electoral roll in the pronounce, alleging that the declare in its original make would result in “mass disenfranchisement” and “strike on the foundations of democracy”. Banerjee has also accused the ECI of committing severe irregularities, procedural violations, and administrative lapses.
ECI officers on Monday stated the CEC had responded to Mamata Banerjee’s queries and that she quiet left the meeting at Nirvachan Sadan in a huff. They stated the CEC told the delegation that the “rule of regulation will prevail” and any individual taking the regulation into their very beget hands will almost definitely be dealt with strictly in step with the provisions of regulation and powers vested in the Price.
The associated rate also cited incidents of vandalism on the ERO (SDO/BDO) offices by TMC employees and stated there must be no stress or interference of any kind on officers engaged in SIR work.
Banerjee stated the TMC would battle it out with the ECI and no longer boycott the elections anticipated to be held later this yr. “They (ECI) like taken over the manager no lower than six months sooner than the assembly elections. They’re no longer permitting the manager to work. They’re behaving as if President’s Rule has been imposed in the pronounce,” she stated.
In Kolkata, a 14-member BJP delegation led by Suvendu Adhikari met with governor CV Ananda Bose to accuse TMC of resorting to hooliganism in the listening to centres. “SIR is now not any longer being held for the first time. She needs to stop the SIR. But she gained’t succeed. There’ll almost definitely be no unfounded, replica and unnecessary voters, Bangladeshis and Rohingyas in the voters’ record. Let her cry how grand she needs. Chor machaye shor,” he added.
