'Restrain yourself from atrocities': Mamata vs Delhi Police ahead of CEC meet over SIR

NEW DELHI: West Bengal main curate Mamata Banerjee arrived successful the nationalist superior connected Monday amid her ongoing tussle with the Election Commission and recovered herself successful a face-off with Delhi Police extracurricular Banga Bhavan. Voicing her protest, Mamata said, “We came present for justice,” and warned that “such threats cannot continue.”

Mamata is scheduled to conscionable main predetermination commissioner Gyanesh Kumar astatine the Election Commission office aboriginal successful the day. The sojourn comes amid mounting governmental hostility implicit the canvass body’s ongoing peculiar intensive revision (SIR) exercise.Questioning the dense constabulary deployment extracurricular Banga Bhavan, the main curate asked the unit to determination away, clarifying that she had nary plans to signifier an agitation.Taking beardown objection to what she called “atrocities” by Delhi Police, Banerjee drew a examination with the attraction accorded to Union Home Minister

Amit Shah

during his visits to West Bengal. “When the location curate comes to Bengal, we springiness him the reddish carpet. But erstwhile we travel to Delhi, you springiness america the achromatic carpet,” she said.

She besides alleged harassment of radical from Bengal and appealed to the authorities to workout restraint.

“Please restrain yourself from the atrocities, from the torture of the Bengal radical who person mislaid their lives,” Mamata said.“If nary 1 fights successful this country, I volition fight, our enactment volition fight,” she added, stating that she was successful Delhi for a property league astatine Banga Bhavan. “The radical of Delhi don’t cognize what’s happening successful Bengal. I conscionable present got the information, and I didn’t adjacent alteration my clothes,” she said.A 15-member Trinamool Congress delegation, led by main curate Mamata Banerjee and enactment National wide caput Abhishek Banerjee, is scheduled to conscionable CEC Gyanesh Kumar.The delegation volition rise concerns implicit what the enactment called the "biased, arbitrary, discriminatory, and politically motivated" behaviour of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) successful Bengal.In a station connected X, the authoritative TMC relationship said, "Today, led by Smt.@MamataOfficial and Shri@abhishekaitc, a 15-member delegation volition conscionable the CEC to formally spot connected grounds our sedate concerns implicit the biased, arbitrary, discriminatory, and politically motivated behaviour of SIR successful Bengal.""The delegation volition contiguous our categorical demands and question urgent corrective action, particularly arsenic our repeated representations to @ECISVEEPhave frankincense acold been met with silence," the station added.The nationwide SIR workout is presently nether mode successful 12 states and national territories, with the last electoral rotation scheduled to beryllium published connected February 7. The states and UTs see Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Kerala, Lakshadweep, Madhya Pradesh, Puducherry, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal.