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Leader of Opposition successful West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari and different Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders staged a protestation march to the bureau of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) successful Kolkata connected Friday (October 10, 2025), accusing Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of threatening the CEO successful her nationalist remarks.
“Yesterday, West Bengal’s administrative head, the Chief Minister, during her code from the State Secretariat… straight attacked the Election Commission and its main typical successful the State, the CEO, successful a mode that tin beryllium termed beneath the belt,” Mr. Adhikari said.
He cited the Chief Minister’s remarks and said that specified connection is “dangerous for a ideology and are threats made by an administrative caput to the Election Commission”.
On Thursday (October 9, 2025), during a property league astatine the State Secretariat, the Chief Minister said that the existent CEO of West Bengal has ‘several allegations against him’ which she volition uncover erstwhile ‘the clip is right’.
“I anticipation (the CEO) volition not play aggressively oregon overreact. The 1 who has respective allegations of corruption against him is threatening officers. And determination is simply a conspiracy to chopped votes successful the sanction of (Special Intensive Revision),” Ms. Banerjee had said.
Mr. Adhikari besides demanded that by Monday (October 13, 2025), the Chief Minister indispensable taxable impervious of the corruption allegations that she levelled against the CEO, and the complaints of the electoral officers who were allegedly intimidated.
“If she doesn’t supply each this accusation to the Leader of Opposition by Monday, past I volition recognize that you person been rattled by (Special Intensive Revision) and by the anticipation of losing your power,” the BJP MLA said.
BJP MLAs including Mr. Adhikari who were seen protesting astatine the premises of the CEO’s bureau connected Friday besides also submitted a missive to the CEO, addressed to the Chief Election Commissioner of India, concerning Ms. Banerjee’s remarks.
In the letter, the LoP requested “a First Information Report (FIR) beryllium registered against the (Chief Minister) for obstructing the behaviour of escaped and just elections and intimidating nationalist servants performing duties nether the Election Commission of India,” and for “necessary directions beryllium issued to guarantee the extortion and independency of each officers associated with the electoral process successful West Bengal.”
Responding to Mr. Adhikari’s statements, Trinamool Congress spokesperson Kunal Ghosh connected Friday accused the BJP of resorting to ‘disappointing politics’ and of ‘issuing threats earlier each election’.
“All their tactics person been exposed, hence they are behaving similar this. The BJP has nary narration with the radical of West Bengal nor with their development. They are going astir doing baseless drama,” Mr. Ghosh said.
