West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday lambasted the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for asking the Election Commission of India to declare the state as “super-sensitive”.
Earlier in the day, top BJP leaders who are also Union ministers like Ravi Shankar Prasad, JP Nadda, Nirmala Sitharaman and others called on the Election Commission, asking for central force deployment in all polling booths of the state. The BJP team also asked for a media observer for Bengal and submitted a list of officers in the state against whom the party has reservations.
At a press conference today, reacting to such demands before the Election Commission, Mamata Banerjee said that the BJP had turned into a “psychiatric patient”. “What are they so afraid of? Why are they afraid of West Bengal?” she asked, adding that the party had developed an obsessive fear of the state. “Now they will want all the people in the state to be declared sensitive as well,” she asked.
“It is insulting to ask the state to be considered super-sensitive.” She said that everything was going on in the state as usual, including major events such as Ganga Sagar Mela, which involved the coming together of so many people. “Everyone, including women are going to work, everything is happening as usual. Is this the situation for being super-sensitive?” Banerjee asked.
She said she was even more astonished as to how the BJP had asked for a media observer. Banerjee gave away figures to indicate that the last panchayat elections were not the only occasion when there had been loss of lives in the state, and a number of those killed were from her party.
Banerjee today met all 42 candidates of her party at her Kalighat residence-cum-party office. She discussed the goals, strategies and details of the campaigning for the coming days.
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