The three-member BJP delegation, led by the party’s state vice-president and journalist-turned politician Jagannath Chattopadhyay, met the commission top brass in Kolkata today.
Jagannath Chattopadhyay (photo:ANI)
A team of the West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) urged the full Bench of the Election Commission of India (ECI) to take action against Trinamul Congress Lok Sabha member and Calcutta High Court senior advocate Kalyan Banerjee for his recent public remark threatening the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), Gyanesh Kumar.
The three-member BJP delegation, led by the party’s state vice-president and journalist-turned politician Jagannath Chattopadhyay, met the commission top brass in Kolkata today.
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The BJP demanded legal action against the Serampore MP, terming the remarks undemocratic and an affront to the dignity of a constitutional office.
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Mr Kumar is currently on a two-day visit to West Bengal to review cases involving voters’ documents identified as “logical discrepancy” matters and to assess preparedness for the Assembly elections scheduled later this year.
During the meeting, the BJP leaders informed the commission about Banerjee’s remarks made last week during a gathering at the TMC’s ongoing indefinite sit-in protest against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Esplanade area. The protest is being led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
The BJP members of the Bengal unit demanded that an FIR is registered against Kalyan Banerjee over his alleged statement that “had Kumar not been the CEC, he would have chopped off his fingers.”
“In total, we have placed a 16-point demand before the full bench of the Election Commission of India. We did not discuss anything about the ongoing SIR exercise in the state. Our demands were mainly on the initiatives that the commission needs to adopt to ensure free and fair polls in state,” said Jagannath Chattopadhyay.
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