Kolkata: Accusing the BJP of unleashing “bulldozer politics” immediately after coming to power in West Bengal, Trinamul Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Sunday called the recently concluded Assembly Election a “mockery” for “vote loot” and threatened to move court to challenge her defeat in her home turf: Bhowanipore.
The former chief minister also alleged that her successor, Suvendu Adhikari, should be in jail instead of becoming the CM. She further claimed that her party, which has got 80 seats this time, was supposed to win at least another 150 which were however swapped with the BJP through rigging of counting and EVMs and hacking of data at the Election Commission.
Ms Banerjee said in an address on Facebook, “An election happened. But was it an election really or a mockery? Counting and EVMs were rigged. Data hacking was done from the EC office. BJP workers, dressed in CRPF uniform, stormed counting centres. Our agents were not allowed entry to counting centres. Their ID cards were snatched.”
In a veiled reference to Mr Adhikari, she observed, “Someone, who has been in the chair, is not supposed to be there because of vote loot. If someone talks about jailing 2500 workers and opening a separate jail for TMC workers, he should go to jail first. From Sarada to Narada, he is everywhere. How did you win in my constituency? I will file a case at court. If you have guts, show a forensic report. We demand EVM reports.”
The TMC chief argued, “When I visited my counting centre on May 4, I was leading by 13,000 votes. There is someone who I don’t like to name. He has occupied the chair now. We have known him for a long time. I saw him looting votes at data centres. Suddenly I was thrown out. Others, present there, belonged to the BJP IT cell. Other parties’ agents were also evicted. Then results were declared after swapping the list of ‘wins’ and ‘defeats’ which happened in around 150 seats. Otherwise, we would have won 220-230 seats. People are neither at fault nor responsible for this.”
On the post-poll violence, Ms Banerjee pointed out, “A total government-sponsored anarchy has been underway. Those who are calling TMC ‘Chor, Chor’ are outsiders. They don’t know Bengali culture. That’s why they are demolishing people’s homes and hawkers’ stalls with bulldozers after coming to power.”
She wondered, “If you have won indeed, why isn’t joy and spontaneity among people ? Why has Bengal been left to lumpens, in headgears and motorcycles, who are looting party offices, people’s homes and shops and women’s dignity? A woman at Bhagabanpur couldn’t even lodge complaint of her rape.”
Vowing to ‘bounce back’ Ms Banerjee later informed that INDIA bloc partners would get together in the first week of June to decide their next step to fight the BJP. She also took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for gifting his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni chocolates instead of distributing them to people.
Meanwhile Ms Banerjee made her party MLA of Kamarhati, Madan Mitra, president of Dum Dum Lok Sabha organisation district.
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