 "Brinda Karat shocked over large scale poll rigging in WB")
Staging a protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, senior Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Brinda Karat on Wednesday expressed her anguish and shock over alleged reports of large scale rigging in polls in West Bengal.
"Well it is absolutely shocking. This is not a partisan demand of one party or one front. This has been shown in every single media channel with full evidence and proof as to how the TMC men were standing inside the booth telling the people where to press the button. This is nothing but coercion, this is nothing but destruction and violation of the minimum democratic rights of people to decide what and who they want," Karat said.
She also questioned the Election Commission for allowing this to take place.
"Yet, shockingly, the EC and the special observer, he is totally oblivious or deliberately oblivious to the large scale rigging which has gone on in Bengal. And the vote loot, how special is the special observer is the first question, and secondly, why is the EC not intervening?" she asked.
The senior CPI(M) leader also asked the EC to hold a re-poll in places where poll malpractices had been reported.
"We have demanded that there should be a re-poll with all the evidence which has been given to the EC. There is enough evidence for re-poll in a large number of booths and that is what we are demanding from the EC," Karat added.
"It is shameful what the TMC has done, they never accept any institutions, there is absolute hooliganism in West Bengal. The Chief Minister (Mamata Banerjee) herself knows it, she was trying to cover it up in her campaign by keeping celebrities on her stage, and she sensed whenever the celebrities left, the crowd would also leave," she remarked.
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Karat also alleged that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was involved in the Saradha scam.
"It is her desperation and she is deeply involved in the Saradha scam. It is because they are losing popular support today in West Bengal that they have resorted to large scale terrorisation and loot of the vote," she said.