KOLKATA: Sounding confident of her fourth term in power with more than 200 seats in this Assembly Election in West Bengal, chief minister and Trinamul Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee directed her party candidates on Saturday to seek a recounting if BJP gains even a minor lead after a round of counting of votes on May 4, the date of announcement of results.
Ms Banerjee also assigned many TMC MPs as counting observers in the party’s organizational districts on that day. She took the key decisions at a virtual meeting in the afternoon with her party candidates and counting agents.
According to TMC insiders, their chief has instructed the party candidates to book hotels for their stay near the counting centres on Sunday for constant monitoring and demand a recounting immediately if BJP takes a narrow lead of 500-700 votes over them in a round of counting on May 4.
Ms Banerjee then made the TMC MPs as counting observers of the party for that day. While actor-turned-Lok Sabha member of Ghatal Dev has been posted in his home turf: Ghatal organizational district, another actor June Maliah has been tasked for Midnapore where she is the MP. Former state DGP Rajeev Kumar, who is now a Rajya Sabha MP, has been entrusted for Dum Dum-Barrackpore.
Ms Banerjee further announced that TMC would reward those party workers who have bravely faced the central forces’ atrocities and it would drag the police observers, deputed by the Election Commission here from various states, into legal cases post-poll. While addressing the meeting, the TMC supremo asserted that BJP has been in no position to come to power this time.
She dismissed the exit poll results as a BJP trick to keep the share market strong like in 2021 and 2024 and underlined that no one can stop TMC from forming its fourth government comfortably with over 200 MLAs, sources said. Her MP nephew Abhishek Banerjee, who was also present, made clear that their party would break its record of seats won in the last assembly polls.
To counter the ruling party, BJP has meanwhile decided to depute its women workers to go for sit-in demonstrations outside each and every strong room from Sunday. It believes that the strategy will create a shield to stop TMC from EVM tampering before the counting starts.
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