Amid the vitriolic and high decibel poll campaigning in West Bengal and Assam Assembly elections, a BJP delegation comprising Union Ministers Prakash Javadekar, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and BJP’s Rajya Sabha MP, Anil Baluni met election commission of India (ECI) officials here on Friday demanding action against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for violation of poll conduct and DMK leader Udhayanidhi Stalin for his remarks against late BJP leaders Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley.
The meeting came soon after after a TMC delegation led by Yashwant Sinha met EC officials in Kolkata to complain about “central police forces being partial” towards the BJP.
Addressing newspersons outside the ECI office at ‘Nirvachan Sadan’, Javadekar blamined Banerjee for violating the model code of conduct.
“TMC violated the model code of conduct and the West Bengal CM has violated ECI rules, so we have demanded action against her,” said Javadekar.
BJP had complained that Banerjee’s sitting at a booth for two hours was allegedly to “slow down the pace of voting on getting feedback that high voter turnout signified her defeat by a huge margin”. BJP had filed a complaint for her “repeated threats and intimidation to BJP supporters at a public rally in Goghat, Hooghly.”
Javadekar also said they have also demanded action against Stalin for saying that BJP leaders Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley died due to pressure exerted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The daughters of the two late leaders had on Thursday taken to social media to hit out at Stalin.