BJP, EC tried to invalidate my Bhabanipur candidature: Mamata at Keshiyari rally

NEW DELHI: West Bengal main curate and All India Trinamool Congress person Mamata Banerjee connected Saturday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of attempting to get her candidature from the Bhabanipur assembly spot cancelled with the assistance of the

Election Commission of India

by filing “false cases”, alleging the determination was thwarted by her enactment workers and the public. Addressing a canvass rally successful Keshiyari successful Paschim Medinipur district, Mamata said, “The

BJP

, with the EC's help, tried to invalidate my candidature from Bhabanipur by trying to record mendacious cases against me, but we foiled their crippled plan.”She again accused the BJP of manipulating electoral rolls during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise. “Over 250 died owed to SIR; retired of 90 lakh deleted voters successful Bengal, 60 lakh are Hindus, 30 lakh Muslims,” she said.She alleged that the deletion of elector names was portion of a broader strategy to power canvass outcomes. “They are deleting voters' names. They are besides readying to tinker with EVMs to crook the results successful their favour,” Banerjee claimed.Raising concerns implicit individuality and citizenship, she said, “Since we talk successful Bengali, are we not Indians? Do we request to perpetually beryllium citizenship?”The main curate besides criticised the BJP’s committedness to instrumentality a

Uniform Civil Code

(UCC) successful the authorities if voted to power. She alleged that specified a determination would beryllium “directed against backward communities” and aimed astatine curbing antiauthoritarian rights.Mamata asserted that her enactment would defy immoderate effort to present the UCC successful West Bengal and reiterated her governmental absorption to the BJP astatine some authorities and nationalist levels.