TMC demands high-level probe into 'attack' on CM Mamata Banerjee

A TMC delegation met the Election Commission EC on Friday and demanded a highlevel probe into an alleged attack on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Nandigram and claimed it was not an ldquounfortunate incidentrdquo but a conspiracyThe sixmember delegation of the Trinamool Congress TMC met the full EC team including Chief Election Commissioner CEC Sunil Arora for over an hour and submitted a memorandum to it highlighting how BJP leaders in West Bengal had threatened the chief minister through tweets and other remarksldquoInjuries to Banerjee in Nandigram were not a result of an unfortunate incident but that of a conspiracy The events leading up to the attempt on her life leave no doubt that the attack was part of a deeprooted conspiracyrdquo TMC MP Saugata Roy said after meeting the EC In the memorandum the TMC has made allegations against Suvendu Adhikari the BJP candidate from Nandigram in the upcoming state Assembly pollsldquoWhen an attempt was made on the life of Ms Banerjee in which she was grievously hurt to cover up the attack eyewitnesses were planted illustratively eyewitnesses Chittaranjan Das and Debabrata Das who testified that Ms Banerjeersquos car was hit against an iron pillar are associates of Suvendu Adhikari BJP candidate from Nandigramrdquo the memorandum saysThe party said the BJPrsquos state president Dilip Ghosh had uploaded a caricature depicting that she would be hit at Nandigram Around the same time numerous complaints were filed by the BJP with the EC seeking immediate removal of the then police chief and IGP of West Bengal it saidTheatre actor dropped from play after joining BJPA theatre group in West Bengal known for its productions on socioeconomic themes has dropped an artiste from a play after the actor joined the BJP Saurav Palodhi whose lsquoGhum Neirsquo an adaptation of the Utpal Dutt classic on the present political situation of the country through the prism of Left ideology had posted on his official Facebook account that the artiste Kaushik Kar was removed from the production for joining the saffron party Kar had been invited by Palodhirsquos group lsquoIchcheymotorsquo in 2019 to play a character whose name had a reference to the victim who was lynched in 2015 Dadri case on suspicion of eating beef ldquoWe are removing Kaushik Kar from lsquoGhum Neirsquo with immediate effect because he has joined the BJP There can be no place for communal elements in a play for the working classrdquoThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever