Farmer Chief Rakesh Tikait To Grasp Mahapanchayat In Bengal’s Nandigram
Rakesh Tikait has been main a protest towards Centre’s agriculture rules (Document)
Kolkata:
Amid an intense Trinamool vs BJP battle over Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee getting injured remaining week, farmers’ chief Rakesh Tikait is visiting Bengal’s Nandigram as of late, the place he’ll grasp a mahapanchayat (public assembly). Ms Banerjee has filed her nomination from the meeting seat and can tackle BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari, whose go out from the Trinamool remaining 12 months induced an exodus of leaders from the party.
Mr Tikait, who has been main a large farmers’ protest towards the 3 central agriculture rules on the Delhi-UP border, was once welcomed in Kolkata through Trinamool MP Dola Sen.
Earlier than leaving for Nandigram, Mr Tikait – a critic of the BJP-led central govt over farm problems – met party leaders at Kolkata’s Mayo Highway.
Ms Banerjee sustained accidents to her foot, head and chest remaining week whilst campaigning in Nandigram after submitting her nomination papers. She had informed newshounds that four-five unknown folks driven her and close the auto door on her.
Whilst the Trinamool Congress had accused the BJP and the Election Fee of getting a job within the subject, the opposition mentioned it was once an twist of fate and Ms Banerjee was once doing “drama” for sympathy votes.
The Election Fee previous this week strongly reacted to Trinamool’s allegation that the “assault” happened an afternoon after the elimination of the Bengal police leader.
“It seems undignified to even reply to the allegations of all this being performed on the behest of a specific political party,” the ballot panel had mentioned in its reaction.
The allegations nearly amounted to undermining the very basis and upholstery of the Charter of India, mentioned the robust election frame, announcing that the Fee “does no longer suitable or take over the day by day governance of any state together with West Bengal”.
Ms Banerjee was once discharged from the sanatorium on Friday.
The Election Fee on Friday declared a Bengal leader secretary record at the Nandigram episode “no longer complete”.
The record had no point out of the “four-five individuals”, who allegedly attacked her, an reputable of the state election workplace informed information company PTI. It, then again, referred to the presence of an enormous crowd on the spot, he added.
The eight-phased Bengal meeting election will start on March 27. Counting will happen on Might 2.
