Don’t need BJP money, Bengal can rebuild Vidyasagar’s statue: Mamata

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during a rally in Uttar Pradesh, had promised to install the statue at the same spot where it stood before being desecrated on Tuesday

LokSabha Elections 2019:Boss Minister Mamata Banerjee said Thursday Bengal does not require cash from the BJP, it has enough assets to remake the Vidyasagar statue that was vandalized at a Kolkata school following Amit Shah’s roadshow.

Executive Narendra Modi, amid a rally in Uttar Pradesh, had guaranteed to introduce the statue at a similar spot where it remained before being profaned on Tuesday.

Tending to a rally here, Banerjee stated, “Modi has guaranteed to reconstruct the Vidyasagar statue in Kolkata. For what reason should we take their (BJP’s) cash, Bengal has enough assets.”

She additionally assaulted the BJP, asserting that vandalizing statues was one of its propensities and that the gathering has done as such in Tripura also.

“The BJP has obliterated 200-year-old legacy of West Bengal, those supporting the gathering won’t be acknowledged by the general public,” she cautioned.

Hitting out at the saffron party over its internet based life posts, the Trinamool Congress supremo additionally said that the BJP had been spreading canards over Facebook and Twitter.

“The BJP is attempting to prompt individuals and cause riots with its phony posts via web-based networking media,” she included.

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EC lost its independence, time to review how it is appointed: Congress

The remarks came after Election Commission curtailed electioneering for nine Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal by 20 hours

LokSabha Elections 2019:Blaming the Election Commission for losing its validity and autonomy, the Congress on Thursday said opportunity has arrived to audit the procedure of the survey board’s arrangement.

Congress’ main representative Randeep Surjewala said the request disallowing crusading in West Bengal by 20 hours is a “dull spot” on India’s majority rule government and organizations like the Election Commission.

“Decision Commission has totally surrendered its Constitutional obligation under Art 324 to guarantee level playing field, other than nullifying the fair treatment under Article 14 and 21 of India’s Constitution,” he told columnists.

“The opportunity has arrived to survey the procedure of arrangement of Election Commission,” he stated, requiring a national discussion on the issue.

The Congress, a mindful ideological group, has never thrown outlandish slanders on the activities of Constitutional bodies, Surjewala said.

The gathering additionally blamed the EC for woking for the BJP. “This seems, by all accounts, to be Election Commission’s separating blessing to Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi and BJP, so as to guarantee that the two pre reported race encourages of Shri Modi at Mathurapur and Dum in evening/evening today are not hit by the EC’s organization,” a public statement issued by the Congress expressed.

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BJP will cross 300 seats, have already crossed the majority mark: Shah

According to the BJP president, they have already crossed the majority mark after the sixth phase. He also said the proposed opposition meeting can be used to elect the leader of the opposition.

LokSabha Elections 2019:BJP president Amit Shah on Wednesday enthused certainty that his gathering has effectively crossed the dominant part mark after 6th period of Lok Sabha surveys and tore into resistance groups over their proposed gathering, saying they may meet to choose a pioneer of restriction.

“I am completely sure that the BJP after fifth and 6th period of the races has crossed the larger part figure. It will cross 300 after the seventh stage,” he told a question and answer session here.

The seventh and last period of the decisions for 543 Lok Sabha seats is expected on May 19. A gathering needs to win 272 seats for a straightforward lion’s share. The BJP had won 282 out of 2014.

Deriding the proposed gathering of resistance pioneers and the move by some provincial gatherings like TRS to shape a government front, Shah said such gatherings don’t influence the BJP whose seats, he included, are not going to descended.

They may meet to choose a pioneer of resistance, he stated, including that outcomes even this time may not give any gathering enough number of seats to choose a pioneer of restriction from its positions.

The Congress, the principle resistance, had won just 44 situates in 2014, not exactly the base 10 percent of seats a gathering needs to win to guarantee the post of the pioneer of restriction in the LoK Sabha.

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EC to hold review meeting before phase 7; West Bengal might be focus

The review meeting will be held via video conference and will be attended by poll officials and observers for constituencies going to polls on the 19th

LokSabha Elections 2019:The Election Commission will on Wednesday hold an audit meeting with eyewitnesses and state boss constituent officers for the last period of Lok Sabha surveys on May 19.

The audit meeting which will be held by means of video gathering, comes multi day after BJP and Trinamool Congress specialists took on pitched conflicts in the city of Kolkata amid a huge street appear by the saffron party president Amit Shah.

“Since nine out of 59 parliamentary voting public going for survey on May 19 are from West Bengal, it is regular that onlookers and survey authorities from the state will likewise take an interest,” an authority said.

He, in any case, would not say whether the attention will be on West Bengal.

While Trinamool Congress has looked for a gathering with the Commission on the issue, a Bharatiya Janata Party appointment asked the Election Commission on Tuesday to bar West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee from crusading in the state and affirmed that “established hardware” has crumpled there.

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