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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) connected Monday (March 30, 2026) urged the Election Commission of India (EC) to initiate ineligible proceedings and prohibit West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee from participating successful the predetermination run for alleged violations of the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) successful the State.
A delegation comprising Union Ministers Piyush Goyal, Kiren Rijiju, and Sukanta Majumdar, BJP nationalist wide caput and MP Arun Singh, BJP nationalist media caput and MP Anil Baluni and Om Pathak submitted the ailment astatine the EC headquarters.
‘Ominous signifier of provocation’
The party, successful its complaint, accused Trinamool Congress chairperson Ms. Banerjee of making “grave and disturbing nationalist statements” during aggregate nationalist rallies, reflecting “a accordant and alarming and ominous signifier of provocation, elector intimidation, and implicit incitement to violence, frankincense posing a superior menace to free, just and peaceful elections”.
It alleged that connected March 25, astatine a rally successful northbound Bengal’s Mainaguri, the Chief Minister reportedly said that aft the polls get over, citizens would beryllium compelled to show posters extracurricular their homes declaring “I don’t enactment BJP”. On the aforesaid day, astatine Naxalbari, she allegedly asked women to “come retired with immoderate you person astatine home”.
“On March 26, 2026, astatine Pandaveswar, she repeated the telephone to ‘unite and resist’ and exhorted radical to travel retired with ‘whatever is astatine home’ connected polling and counting days, if immoderate unit was allegedly applied. Simultaneously, she formed doubts connected the credibility of the counting process, thereby undermining nationalist assurance successful the Election Commission and the electoral system,” the ailment said.
Alleging that BJP workers were attacked astatine Basanti successful South 24 Parganas territory by a “mob of Trinamool Congress goons astatine the behest and exhortations of Mamata Banerjee”, the enactment besides accused the State constabulary of remaining “passive spectators” during the incident.
The BJP besides targeted Trinamool MP Mahua Moitra, pointing retired that astatine a property league successful Kolkata she pitched “one linguistic radical assemblage against others”.
‘Vitiating the canvass process’
“Notably, astir past elections — whether Assembly, Lok Sabha, municipality section bodies oregon panchayats — person each been consistently marred by pervasive fearfulness and brute unit perpetrated by the TMC. This has gravely compromised and vitiated the electoral process and, successful turn, the fashionable mandate, striking astatine the precise foundations of escaped and just elections,” the BJP said.
The enactment urged the EC to instrumentality contiguous cognisance of the statements and incidents mentioned successful the ailment and nonstop initiation of ineligible proceedings, including the filing of an FIR; debar Ms. Banerjee from participating successful the predetermination campaign; guarantee enhanced deployment of cardinal forces successful delicate and susceptible areas; and deploy much Indian Administrative Service and Indian Police Service officers arsenic EC observers.
The BJP besides requested adjacent monitoring of polling and counting processes to guarantee the sanctity and credibility of the electoral process.
Voting successful the State volition beryllium held successful 2 phases connected April 23 and April 29 portion the results volition beryllium retired connected May 4.
