West Bengal Elections 2021: Purba Medinipur District Police today registered an FIR in connection with the alleged attack on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Nandigram yesterday. The case was lodged following a complaint lodged by TMC leader Sheikh Sufian. The police has registered a case beneath IPC sections 341 (punishment for wrongful restraint) and 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt).
Meanwhile, the Trinamool Congress has postponed the release of its election manifesto following the incident. The party was scheduled to release the manifesto today at Banerjee’s residence in Kalighat. The party stated that the manifesto will only be released following Mamata Banerjee gets effectively and returns property.
Following the incident, a TMC group comprising MP Derek O’Brien, state ministers Chandrima Bhattacharya and Partha Chatterjee met Election Commission officials in Kolkata today and filed a complaint in the case. After the meeting, Derek O’Brien stated that these accountable for the heinous incident have to have to be brought to the book. O’Brien alleged BJP’s hand in the incident. He stated that the Election Commission had changed the DGP on March 9 whilst a BJP MP posted ‘aap samajh jayenge, 5 pm ke baad kya hone wala hai’ (you will fully grasp what will take place following 5pm) on social media on March 10 and the attack on the CM took location following that. He stated that the TMC desires the truth to prevail.
TMC leader Partha Chatterjee stated that the EC has to take duty for the attack on Mamata Banerjee as they are acting as per orders of the BJP.
BJP state president Dilip Ghosh today known as for a CBI probe into the incident. He stated that it requires to be noticed no matter if the incident was a effectively-scripted drama to garner votes. He stated that if a Z-plus protectee gets attacked, the matter have to be looked into.
Reacting to Mamata Banerjee’s allegation of conspiracy against her, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury today stated that if there is a conspiracy, contact CBI, NIA, CID or type an SIT. “Why don’t you (Mamata Banerjee) do it? Making an excuse of conspiracy, you want to get public sympathy. Where were the police, CCTV? Take out CCTV footage and the truth will come out….She is trying to gain sympathy from people by making excuses of attack, conspiracy, an attempt of murder etc. It is laughable that she claims there was no police with her. It is an attempt to win the election with excuses,” stated Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury.
Elections in West Bengal will be held in eight phases, starting March 27. The votes will be counted on May 2.