West Bengal: Didi begins sit-in, alleges EC 'plot' to delete voters' names

KOLKATA: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee began her sit-in Friday, alleging a “BJP-EC conspiracy to disenfranchise Bengali voters” done SIR of the electoral roll, and said the upcoming assembly polls would beryllium a farce if genuine voters are not allowed to vote.To backmost her charge, the TMC main had besides assembled respective radical who claimed their names person been struck disconnected the elector database aft being marked arsenic “dead”.The protestation was organised up of the sojourn of the afloat seat of the Election Commission, which is acceptable to get successful Kolkata Sunday nighttime and enactment successful the authorities till Tuesday to reappraisal canvass preparedness.The predetermination dates are apt to beryllium announced aft the EC squad returns to Delhi.

“I volition exposure the BJP-EC conspiracy to disenfranchise Bengali voters,” the CM said from her dharna signifier astatine the Esplanade. She said she would enactment astatine the protestation tract overnight and declared that “the dharna volition spell on”.“Many radical declared dormant (on the electoral roll) are inactive alive. I volition bring them to the stage,” Banerjee said. “Look astatine them. They are sitting here. BJP and its agents successful EC person crossed each limits.”

TMC Lok Sabha MP Abhishek Banerjee gave a “boycott BJP” call. “If 60 lakh radical tin beryllium kept nether adjudication, wherefore cannot PM’s seat beryllium kept nether adjudication? The PM was elected with votes from these people,” helium said.When the curtain lifted connected the dharna tract astir 2pm, Banerjee was sitting connected the signifier surrounded by cardinal faces of her party. Trinamool’s RS nominees, ex-DGP Rajeev Kumar and elder advocator Menaka Guruswamy, besides made their debut appearance.Meanwhile, BJP dismissed the disturbance arsenic different “theatrics” aimed astatine stalling the “cleansing of electoral roll”. “This dharna is decidedly not for the radical of Bengal. It is to guarantee that infiltrators are retained successful the electoral roll,” Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattcharya said astatine the Parivartan Yatra successful Howrah.Union curate Giriraj Singh, who took portion successful the Parivartan Yatra successful WB, said TMC is moving to “legitimise citizenship of Muslim infiltrators from Bangladesh”.