Updated Apr 07, 2021 | 20:29 IST
The Election Commission has issued a notice to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for allegedly violating the model code. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee | Photo Credit: ANI
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Election Commission issues notice to Mamata Banerjee for making an appeal to voters along communal lines during campaigning in Hooghly
She has been asked to respond to the notice within the next 48 hour
Banerjee appealed to the Muslim voters not to let their votes be split among different political parties
New Delhi: The Election Commission has issued notice to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for allegedly violating the model code by urging Muslims to unite and vote for Trinamool Congress (TMC).
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Benga; Election 2021: You (BJP) cannot terrorise us or intimidate us, Mamata Banerjee alleged today
Kalchini, West Bengal:
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today claimed BJP activists were forcibly occupying polling booths and attacking Trinamool members, including party candidates, and asserted that she would not get bogged down by such intimidating tactics .
Addressing a public rally in Kalchini in Bengal s Alipurduar district, Mamata Banerjee alleged that her party s nominee in Arambagh, Sujata Mondal, was chased and hit on head near a polling booth by BJP workers. They have inflicted serious injury on our Scheduled Caste candidate Sujata, when she visited a booth. They also hit another candidate in Khanakul. In Canning East, security forces prevented our nominee Shaukat Mollah from entering a booth. There had been numerous such instances of attack on our candidates, party workers across the state, Mamata Banerjee said.
Kolkata:
Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee s appeal to Bengal s Muslim population not to divide their votes indicates that she has lost their support, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today. While on the subject, he also pointed out that a similar appeal to Hindus from the BJP would have drawn the wrath of the Election Commission and media on the party.
Campaigning in north Bengal s Cooch Behar as the third phase of elections in the state is in progress, the Prime Minister also told the crowd that he would return their love with interest, in the form of development .
With 27 per cent of Bengal s population comprising Muslims, the votes are critical for Ms Banerjee s Trinamool Congress as it contends with the BJP challenge. But this time, the entry of two Muslim leaders All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen or AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi and a religious leader from Furfura Sharif has queered the pitch.
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