The BJP which released yet another sting video on Sunday appealed to the Election Commission to remove some senior IPS officers for their links with the leaders of Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress.
The video which was not tested for its authenticity by your newspaper showed SM Mirza an IPS officer telling a third person in a footage about how he arranged more than `1 crore for a Trinamool leader in the 2014 elections. He is also shown as taking pride in getting a young leader called a ministerial berth.
“Either Mirza should be questioned about the allegation or the leaders who got more than `1 crore to fight the polls should be sacked as MPs before they violated Election rules on expenditure,” State BJP leader JP Majumdar said.
“Citing the video footage we have told the ECI that this officer who has such high political bias and strong political links that he can even get a person nominated as a Minister should not be allowed to remain even linked remotely with the election work,” BJP leader SN Singh said.
The BJP also reiterated its demand to remove Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajib Kumar for his political bias, Singh said alleging Kumar should not be allowed to handle the investigation of the Fly-over collapse case where several Trinamool leaders’ name were coming up.
Men of two local Trinamool MlAs had been given sub-contracts in the fly-over construction. The bridge fell on Thursday killing 27 people and injuring 89.