The Trinamool Congress supremo, in her petition, has accused Adhikari of committing corrupt practices and that discrepancies were committed during the counting process.
Adhikari's meeting with the BJP top brass comes days after his presence during a Modi-Banerjee meet to review the damage caused by Cyclone Yaas had irked the TMC leader.
Mamata Banerjee left her Bhowanipore seat to contest against aide-turned-rival Suvendu Adhikari from Nandigram, but lost. She has to become an MLA within 6 months to retain CM post.
Citing a SMS purportedly sent by the poll officer, Mamata Banerjee says she will move court over the election result in Nandigram where she lost to BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari.
Mamata Banerjee lost to BJP's Suvendu Adhikari by 1,956 votes. She said she would go to the court as the ‘people have witnessed the horror of the ECI’ in Bengal.
Mamata Banerjee wants a recount, says ‘there has been a mischief played by the ECI in Nandigram’. The Election Commission is yet to officially declare the result for Nandigram.
The EC had received a complaint from Kavita Krishnan of CPI-ML which alleged that Adhikari delivered a 'hate speech' while addressing a public meeting in Nandigram on 29 March.
In Nandigram's Boyal area, villagers alleged that BJP supporters stopped them from going to polling booths. As soon as Banerjee reached Boyal, BJP supporters chanted 'Jai Shri Ram' slogans.
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