Mamata visits polling cubicles in Bhabanipur, alleges central forces appearing at BJP’s behest
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday visited numerous cubicles in her Bhabanipur Meeting constituency the place polling is underway and alleged that central forces and election observers had been appearing on the behest of the BJP.
The Bhabanipur Meeting phase is Ms. Banerjee’s political bastion, the place she faces Chief of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari in a status battle seen as a symbolic rematch of Nandigram, the place he had defeated her in 2021.
The TMC supremo, who normally steps out of her Kalighat residence within the afternoon on polling day to forged her vote at Mitra Establishment Faculty, went out earlier than 8 a.m. and visited a number of polling stations within the constituency, together with these within the Chetla space of south Kolkata.
She later sat outdoors a polling station at Chakraberia in Bhabanipur and spoke to reporters, alleging irregularities and accusing the BJP of attempting to affect the polling course of by means of central forces and observers.
“A number of observers have come from outdoors and are appearing as per the BJP’s instructions. Individuals are presupposed to forged their votes, can voting happen like this?” Ms. Banerjee stated.
She additionally alleged that each one TMC get together flags had been eliminated beforehand and claimed that outsiders had been interfering with the polling course of.
“They don’t seem to be permitting the councillor of ward quantity 70 to step out. They’re choosing up all our boys. Abhishek and I stayed awake the whole night time,” she stated.
– PTI
