‘If he is Singham, I am Pushpa’: TMC protests after IPS officer's warning on voter intimidation

NEW DELHI: A governmental enactment erupted successful West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas connected Tuesday arsenic Trinamool Congress (TMC) supporters staged protests, accusing Election Commission-appointed constabulary perceiver Ajay Pal Sharma of “intimidating” enactment workers up of the 2nd signifier of polling.Protests broke retired successful Falta, wherever supporters raised slogans extracurricular the residence and predetermination bureau of TMC campaigner Jahangir Khan against the cop. Senior enactment leaders and authorities ministers alleged that the Uttar Pradesh-cadre IPS serviceman was overstepping his role.The flare-up follows Sharma’s sojourn to the country aft the Election Commission received complaints that Khan’s associates were allegedly collecting elector individuality cards and threatening electors.

During the visit, Sharma, who earned the rubric successful Uttar Pradesh arsenic “Singham” for his pugnacious policing style, warned that strict enactment would beryllium taken if immoderate effort was made to power voters.In a video going viral, Ajay Pal Sharma was seen informing Jehangir Khan's family: "Tell him, we’ll woody decently with him if his men proceed to threaten...don’t outcry oregon regret it then."

Read more: UP IPS serviceman Ajay Pal Sharma’s video goes viral aft raid linked to TMC campaigner Jahangir KhanResponding sharply, Khan invoked fashionable movie characters to antagonistic the officer’s image.

“This is Bengal; if helium is ‘Singham’, I americium ‘Pushpa’. No magnitude of menace oregon coercion by BJP-appointed constabulary officials volition beryllium allowed here,” helium said, alleging that the serviceman and accompanying forces had tried to unit him and his supporters.Also speaking to IANS, the campaigner from Falta constituency said, "Around 3 PM. yesterday, helium came and tried to endanger my information unit astatine this enactment office. Then helium went and tried to endanger my family. Is this the work of a constabulary observer?""If helium has to accidental thing helium has to archer the SP oregon IC. There is nary regularisation of the ECI that says that a constabulary perceiver tin spell and endanger radical and candidates astatine their home.

To assistance the BJP these radical are doing amerciable things. They are trying to threatened TMC workers and leaders due to the fact that they cognize that they won't win, but we are not afraid," helium alleged further.TMC leaders objected to the officer’s conduct. State curate Chandrima Bhattacharya questioned whether an perceiver was authorised to transportation retired late-night visits and contented warnings without evidence. Another minister, Aroop Biswas, said observers were expected to stay neutral and immoderate effort to enactment beyond law limits would beryllium challenged legally.Sharma is among the 95 observers deployed by the Election Commission to guarantee escaped and just polling successful the 2nd phase. Falta falls nether the Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha constituency represented by TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee.