West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has filed an election petition in opposition to Suvendu Adhikari earlier than the Calcutta High Court and the matter is listed for listening to earlier than a single bench on Friday.
As per the ’trigger record’ launched by the excessive court docket in its web site on Thursday, the matter is scheduled to be taken up through video convention earlier than the court docket of Justice Kausik Chanda as “to be mentioned”.
The Election Commission had declared Adhikari the winner and the Trinamool Congress supremo the runner-up within the fiercely contested election for the Nandigram constituency.
Alleging tampering of EVM machines and refusal of calls for for recounting by the involved EC official, Banerjee had stated following declaration of the outcomes that the doorways of the court docket will likely be knocked on the problem.
BJP MLA Adhikari is at current the chief of the opposition within the West Bengal meeting.