By way of PTI
KOLKATA: The BJP on Thursday steered the State Election Fee to countermand elections to 3 municipalities in West Bengal which the ruling Trinamool Congress received with none contest.
The TMC used to be declared winner in Sainthia and Budge Budge municipalities on Wednesday, and in Dinhata on Thursday.
Elections to 108 municipalities within the state are scheduled to be hung on February 27.
Chief of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari informed journalists after assembly senior SEC officers that the BJP needs the polls to the 3 civic our bodies be countermanded because of “intimidation and risk to BJP applicants, and acts of bodily fighting them from submitting nomination papers”.
“Now we have informed SEC Sourav Das and fee secretary N Shandilya that what took place within the 3 civic our bodies used to be not anything in need of mockery of democracy. If the ruling celebration can cling up the municipal elections for approximately two years, why cannot elections be deferred in those 3 civic our bodies through some other six months?” he stated.
Adhikari stated the BJP will release an agitation if the call for used to be now not met.
The BJP chief additionally demanded the deployment of central armed paramilitary forces in elections to 4 municipal firms of Bidhannagar, Siliguri, Chandernagore and Asansol on February 12.
“The MHA will despatch consignments of central forces in a 24-hour understand. Let the SEC being an self reliant frame take a choice to make sure unfastened and honest polls. Let the central forces be additionally deployed within the February 27 polls in 108 municipalities,” he stated.
The TMC received 13 of the 16 wards of Sainthia municipality, 12 of the 20 wards in Budge Budge, and 13 of the 16 wards in Sainthia uncontested.
Reacting to Adhikari’s call for, TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh stated, “Who’s Suvendu Adhikari to invite for countermanding the municipal polls? Does he be expecting the SEC to bounce to his tunes?” Dinhata’s TMC MLA Udayan Guha denied the BJP allegations.
“It’s the BJP which had unleashed a reign of terror in Coochbehar all the way through the closing meeting and Lok Sabha elections. However now individuals are turning towards them. The BJP isn’t discovering other folks to contest in Dinhata, and the Congress and CPI(M) have lengthy been decimated,” he stated.