CEC in cahoots with BJP for Bengal win, alleges Kapil Sibal
Former law minister Kapil Sibal on Wednesday accused Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar of working in cahoots with the BJP to make the party win the West Bengal elections, saying he is a “national shame” and it is his “vocation” to make sure that the BJP emerges victorious.
The Independent Rajya Sabha MP also came down heavily on the BJP-led Centre and the Election Commission of India (ECI) over the massive deployment of security personnel for the Bengal polls to be held in two phases on April 23 and 29.
Questioning the use of the logical discrepancy argument for “disenfranchising” people in Bengal, Sibal said, “They did not use this in Maharashtra and Haryana but are using it in West Bengal.”
It is the chief election commissioner who is the “logical discrepancy” in this country, Sibal said, adding that nothing that the top poll official says is “logical”.
“His discrepancy is stamped all over West Bengal. It is a shame that we have an election commissioner of this nature. It is an absolute national shame. It is also a national shame that nobody is doing anything about it,” Sibal said.
Accusing Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar of being in cahoots with the BJP, Sibal said the CEC’s “vocation” is to make sure that the BJP somehow wins the election in West Bengal.
Taking a dig at Yogi Adityanath for reportedly attributing a quote by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose to Swami Vivekanand, Sibal said the Uttar Pradesh chief minister has no idea about history and the Constitution, as he only knows about bulldozers and other such things.
