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.
In interview to ThePrint, BJP's Nandigram candidate Suvendu Adhikari, once a close Mamata aide, says people have lost faith in her, claims she only played appeasement politics.
The population of Nandigram, one of 16 assembly constituencies in East Midnapore, is 34 per cent Muslim. The figure is below 20 per cent in the remaining constituencies.
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