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Tortured in jail, won’t apologise: BJP activist on sharing Mamata’s photo

‘I don’t have any regrets. I have not done anything for which I will have to apologise,’ Priyanka Sharma said

LokSabha Elections 2019:BJP youth wing extremist Priyanka Sharma, who left prison on Wednesday in the wake of being captured for posting a transformed picture of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Facebook, said she would not apologize.

“I don’t have any second thoughts. I have not done anything for which I should apologize,” Sharma told a question and answer session at the BJP office here.

She was discharged at 9.40 am from the Alipore correctional facility following five days following a Supreme Court request.

The BJP extremist claimed that she was bothered and tormented inside prison. “I was tormented in the correctional facility. Indeed, even the guard pushed me yesterday. I disclosed to them I am not a criminal that you are pushing me into the prison room this way,” she said. “They acted all around discourteously. The condition inside was awful.”

Nearby BJP pioneers and her mom were available outside the prison in south Kolkata when she was discharged.

“Me and my family has experienced much anguish which I figure I don’t merit,” Sharma told PTI over telephone.

Her sibling, Rajiv Sharma, claimed that the correctional facility specialists disregarded the Supreme Court request by not discharging her on Tuesday.

“When we went to the correctional facility yesterday, authorities said they required a printed copy of the request. I am in Delhi and it required investment to get the printed copy of the request and in this manner the postponement. They didn’t keep the Supreme Court request of prompt discharge,” he said

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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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