BJP Tried To Cancel My Nomination

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday accused the BJP of trying to have her candidature cancelled at her home turf Bhowanipore, with the help of the Election Commission, but had failed. “The BJP, with the EC’s help, tried to invalidate my candidature by filing two false affidavits against me. But we foiled their game plan,” she asserted.Leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari is the BJP candidate against her at Bhowanipore. Addressing a poll campaign rally at Keshiary in West Midnapore, she opposed the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in the state, a day after the BJP made it a key promise in its manifesto, stating that she would not allow it to be implemented in Bengal. Banerjee alleged, “The BJP promised it so that it can take away your rights to practise your religious faith and follow rituals as per customs and tradition. By implementing the UCC, they seek to ensure that all religious practices are the same. UCC means one BJP, one rule. Why are you bringing in such Bills in Parliament when we are busy with the polls? Once you are no longer in power in Delhi, we will scrap such draconian Bills. We will not allow its implementation in West Bengal.” She also questioned other BJP promises at another rally in Jhargram. “During polls, they suddenly talk about giving 33 per cent reservation for women. But what is the women’s representation in their own party? Why didn’t they implement the promise earlier?” the CM wondered before asking, “What happened to the women wrestlers? What happened in the Unnao and Hathras incidents?” In a veiled attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah who campaigned in the state during the day, Banerjee said: “They are like migratory birds. Why are they missing during natural calamities?” Her MP nephew Abhishek Banerjee who addressed a rally in Murshidabad claimed that TMC would restore the voting rights of those, whose names have been deleted by the Election Commission in the special intensive revision, within a month after winning the polls on May 4. “All of you are citizens of this country and should not be panicked or worried,” he said.



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