Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday wrote to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, days after Nobel laureate Amartya Sen became once served a listening to peek as segment of the Particular Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voter list, calling it “a topic of profound disgrace”.
“It is a topic of profound disgrace that Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, a nonagenarian and a globally respected intellectual, has been requested to appear earlier than ECI officials to place his credentials,” she wrote.
Banerjee additionally cited cases of poet Joy Goswami, Tollywood actor and TMC MP Deepak Adhikari, cricketer Mohammed Shami, and a monk of the Bharat Sevashram Sangha, who absorb been sent listening to notices too.
“Does this no longer quantity to sheer audacity on the segment of the ECI? These are ideal a couple of examples of known personalities. There are hundreds extra who absorb been assign to such undue harassment,” she wrote.
That is the 2d letter the manager minister has written to the pollpanel chief this month. On January 3, she wrote to the CEC alleging that the SIR became once erroneous and that many would perhaps well additionally lose their proper to vote as a result.
She additionally raised questions over the characteristic of observers and micro-observers appointed by the pollpanel, alleging that some absorb been performing previous their mandate.
“There are traumatic stories of general voters being branded by some observers as ‘Desh Drohi’ and subjected to verbal abuse with out any provocation,” she wrote.
“It is additionally learnt that so-referred to as logical discrepancies, which are essentially entirely illogical, are being selectively focused in some constituencies ideal, with political bias,” she added.
She ended the three-online page typed letter with a footnote: “Though I do know you obtained’t answer or provide an explanation for. Nonetheless it for sure is my accountability to deliver you of the information.”
