“Want power on strength of infiltrators’ votes”: BJP’s Kapil Mishra slams Mamata Banerjee’s “ECI harassing citizens” claims
He said such “poison and cancer” treatment would be covered.
Mishra told ANI, “It is natural that they are suffering from stomach aches because they want to return to power with the votes of infiltrators. A country cannot elect its government with the help of infiltrators. It is like poison and cancer. The cure for this cancer is certain and will be done.”
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader was campaigning for his party in Mumbai ahead of the upcoming Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections.
Mishra said Mahayuti will get an overwhelming majority in the BMC elections scheduled to be held on January 15.
“BMC elections are where a big wave is moving in favor of the BJP and Mahayuti alliance. Definitely, the BJP and Mahayuti alliance is heading towards an overwhelming majority. Those who are against nationalism, Mumbai and development have a stomach ache,” he added.
Earlier, West Bengal Leader of Opposition (LoP) Suvendu Adhikari wrote a letter to Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, saying that Mamata Banerjee’s allegations were an attempt to derail the SIR move and it was a very important process. He also termed the allegations made by Mamata Banerjee as “baseless and exaggerated”.
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Adhikari claimed that Banerjee’s allegations were motivated by the party’s desire to protect its electoral interests.
This comes in the wake of Mamata Banerjee’s concern over the treatment of ordinary citizens during the SIR exercise. He said hearings had become largely mechanical, based on technical data, and lacked the precision, human touch and application of reason required for such a fundamental exercise in democracy.
In her letter, Banerjee said, “Though I know you will not respond or explain. But it is my duty to inform you about the details.”
“I am deeply shocked and disturbed that the ECI appears to be ruthlessly harassing ordinary citizens during the ongoing SIR. The hearing process has become largely mechanical, driven by purely technical data and completely devoid of the reason, sensitivity and human touch that are indispensable for an exercise of this nature that forms the direct basis of our democracy and constitutional framework,” the letter said.
He noted that back-end changes to case disposal options were causing confusion among officials and warned that such issues could amount to a deliberate attempt to disenfranchise eligible voters.
“The figures of so-called logical inconsistency are increasing day by day. It has been reported that the portal used for West Bengal is clearly different from those used in other states. Moreover, the options initially provided for elimination of such cases are being changed irregularly from the backend, causing serious confusion among the official mechanisms doing this work. This amounts to a deliberate and covert attempt to disenfranchise the eligible voters of the state,” the letter said.
