Didi Asks TMC Candidates To Seek Recounting If BJP Leads On May 4

Ms. Banerjee also appointed many TMC MPs as counting observers in the party’s organizational areas that day. Important decisions were made in the afternoon in a virtual meeting with party candidates and counting representatives.

According to sources in the TMC, party presidents have instructed party candidates to book hotels to stay near counting centers on Sunday for constant monitoring and to demand immediate recount if the BJP is ahead of them by a narrow margin of 500-700 votes in the counting round on May 4.

Ms Banerjee later appointed TMC MPs as the party’s counting observers for the day. While Ghatal Dev’s actor-turned-Lok Sabha member was posted in his home state: Ghatal organizational district, another actor June Maliah was posted in Midnapore, where he is an MP. Former state DGP Rajeev Kumar, who is currently a Rajya Sabha MP, has been entrusted with Dum Dum-Barrackpore.

Ms. Banerjee also announced that the TMC will reward party workers who bravely confronted the atrocities by the central forces and drag police observers deployed here by the Election Commission from various states into post-election legal cases. Addressing the meeting, the TMC chief claimed that the BJP was not in a position to come to power this time.

Sources dismissed the exit poll results as a ploy by the BJP to keep the share market strong as in 2021 and 2024 and underlined that no one can stop the TMC from comfortably forming its fourth government with over 200 MLAs. His nephew and MP Abhishek Banerjee, who was also present, made it clear that his party would break the record of seats won in the last assembly polls.

Meanwhile, to counter the ruling party, the BJP has decided to deploy its women workers to stage a sit-in protest in front of all powerful chambers from Sunday. He believes the strategy will create a shield to prevent the TMC from interfering with the EVM before counting begins.