“We are going to move the court on that. This is unacceptable,” Mamata Banerjee had said.
New Delhi:
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s conduct at a polling station in Nandigram last week is under a scanner, the Election Commission said, dismissing her allegations of interruption of voting at the polling place.
Qualifying Ms. Banerjee’s handwritten complaint as “factually incorrect” and “lacking in substance,” the Commission said it is contemplating action under the relevant sections of the Model Code of Conduct and the Law on Representation of the Government. Town.
During the vote on Nandigram on Thursday, the chief minister, who enjoys Z-plus security, was embroiled in a tense confrontation between the BJP and Trinamool supporters and had to remain locked inside a room for about two hours. rescued by security forces.
Accusing the electoral body of taking orders from the Union Interior Minister Amit Shah, Mamata Banerjee said she had ignored the 63 complaints her party had filed since morning.
“We are going to move the court. This is unacceptable,” she had said, sitting in her wheelchair outside of polling place 7 in Boyal.
From the scene, he called the Governor of Bengal, Jagdeep Dhankar, and told him that the situation was the result of the Election Commission’s failure to maintain law and order during the elections.
Today, the Commission said that Ms. Banerjee’s action at the polls was fraught with “immense potential to have an adverse effect on law and order in West Bengal and perhaps some other states.”
“It is a matter of deep regret that a media narrative sought to be woven hour after hour to divert the main stakeholders, which are the voters, by a candidate who is also the honorable CM … All this was done when the elections The process was / is underway. There could not have been a felony misdemeanor, “reads the Commission’s response.
“It is being examined separately whether the events of 1.4.2021 warrant any action under sections 131 and 123 (2) of the RP Law and / or under the Model Code of Conduct,” the Commission added before signing.
Section 131 of the People’s Representation Act requires penalties for disorderly conduct in or near polling stations.
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