BJP’s Rahul Sinha banned from campaigning for 48 hours
He had made some comments on the Sitalkuchi killings.
Rahul Sinha, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) senior leader and candidate from Habra constituency, has been banned by the Election Commission from campaigning for 48 hours over provocative statements and for “inciting central forces”. The EC said this on Tuesday. Habra goes to the polls on April 22.
On Monday evening, West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee was banned from campaigning for 24 hours.
The Trinamool Congress had asked for action against Rahul Sinha and BJP’s Bengal chief Dilip Ghosh for what the party termed “inflammatory” remarks on the killing of four persons in Cooch Behar’s Sitalkuchi when elections were under way on Saturday. Trinamool Congress complained to the EC that BJP leaders were “instigating” violence with warnings of more such incidents.
The Trinamool mentioned Dilip Ghosh’s speech of April 11, in Baranagar, in which he warned of similar incidents if anyone “crossed the line”. Rahul Sinha had said at a public meeting that “Not four, but eight persons should have been shot dead in Sitalkuchi”.
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