CPM Files Complaint against Mamata with Election Commission

Alleging violation of the civic poll model code by Mamata Banerjee during electioneering for forthcoming civic polls, the CPM has lodged a complaint with the West Bengal Election Commission, said media reports.

In his complaint to State Election Commissioner Meera Pandey, CPM state secretary Biman Bose said that Banerjee claimed to have a secret report about CPM’s attempt to create communal discord in connivance with the police in the metropolis while campaigning at Hazra on May 14, reports said.

Bose charged that Banerjee repeated the allegation yesterday at another public meeting at Rajabazar, said reports.

Stating that newspapers and the electronic media had carried reports about it, Bose asked the State Election Commission to act immediately as such provocative speeches were ‘in gross violation of the civic poll model code and the People’s Representative Act, 1951’, reports said.

(Based on internet reports)