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KOLKATA: Ahead of the May 4 counting of votes for the assembly elections, Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee Saturday trashed exit canvass results, saying they were conducted to “manipulate the banal market,” and told enactment colleagues successful a virtual code that Trinamool “is winning and winning by 200-plus seats.
”Banerjee urged counting agents not to permission their tables adjacent for a infinitesimal without a replacement and advised them not to beryllium anxious if postal ballot results initially spell against the party.She and Trinamool nationalist wide caput Abhishek Banerjee alleged that “BJP was utilizing the Election Commission” and that enactment workers and supporters were being selectively targeted. The CM said she would reward workers who had “withstood these attacks fearlessly and fought back”.Trinamool Congress besides released a database of enactment seniors deputed to coordinate with crushed workers connected the counting day. Abhishek volition oversee South 24 Parganas.Meanwhile, Bengal’s person of absorption Suvendu Adhikari called connected each governmental parties to support bid up of the counting, urging them to judge the people’s mandate and debar a repetition of the post-poll unit that followed the 2021 elections.“Let determination beryllium bid successful Bengal. The predetermination is implicit and each governmental enactment should instrumentality portion successful the counting.
Whatever rivalry existed during the polls should extremity now,” Adhikari said connected Friday evening arsenic helium emerged from an EVM strongroom aft a visit.Invoking the 2021 violence, successful which BJP claims 300 of its workers were killed, helium said: “No neta is wounded successful unit — I person CRPF security, Mamata ji has constabulary extortion and a bulletproof car. It is the communal antheral and mean idiosyncratic who suffers. We should present cooperate with EC, cardinal forces and authorities police.”BJP spokesperson Debjit Sarkar alleged that “outsiders” had been brought into the metropolis and were staying astatine hotels up of counting.
