Trinamool Team Meets Election Commission, Claim "Central Forces Being Partial" Towards BJP

Bengal Elections 2021: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday had accused central forces deployed in Nandigram constituency, where she is locked in battle with her former lieutenant, Suvendu Adhikari now with the BJP, of helping them.

A high level Trinamool Congress delegation, led by Yashwant Sinha, former Cabinet minister and now Trinamool vice president and state minister Subrata Mukherjee, today met the Election Commission with a complaint alleging central police forces acted with partiality in favour of the BJP at certain polling centers. Mr Sinha told reporters after meeting the Chief Electoral Officer Aariz Aftab that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah are influencing the poll process by passing on instruction from Delhi. "We have told the poll panel, the role of central forces have been partial in many booths in the first two phases. There have been incidents of violence and attacks on our party supporters by BJP. We have asked the EC to see to it this was not repeated in the next six phases," Mr Sinha said. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday had accused central forces deployed in Nandigram constituency, where she is locked in battle with her former lieutenant, Suvendu Adhikari now with the BJP, of helping them.