No proof of deliberate assault in opposition to Mamata Banerjee, no OK looked for occasion: EC observers

A day after the Trinamool Congress (TMC) alleged a “premeditated” try on Mamata Banerjee’s life, the Election Commission’s Observers in West Bengal have reported again to the ballot panel saying there is no such thing as a proof of that, sources informed The Sunday Express.
According to those sources primarily based in Kolkata, Special Police Observer Vivek Dube and General Observer Ajay Nayak have knowledgeable the Commission, of their report submitted Saturday, that the incident which led to her harm was a safety lapse.
Significantly, they’ve additionally identified that no permission was obtained for the Nandigram occasion as per EC norms and that’s the reason there was no official video recording of the marketing campaign by the election equipment.

Moreover, the 2 Observers are mentioned to have advisable motion in opposition to some officers of the district administration for alleged lapses.
Their report, it’s realized, doesn’t describe the incident as an accident both, given that there’s little proof to reach at any conclusion.
“The observations in the report are based on the inputs received from local administration officials and Returning Officer,” mentioned a supply.
The three Election Commissioners are anticipated to deliberate on the report filed by the Observers and the one by the West Bengal Chief Secretary on Sunday.
The ballot panel had sought these reviews after the Chief Minister was injured on March 10 throughout her marketing campaign in Nandigram, from the place she additionally filed her nomination for the upcoming meeting elections. Banerjee had alleged that she was focused by a gaggle of “four or five people” who had pushed her outdoors a temple the place she had stopped to supply prayers. She was admitted to hospital with bone accidents in her left ankle and foot and gentle accidents in her proper shoulder, forearm and neck.
Banerjee’s occasion has alleged that she was attacked, calling it a “premeditated” try on her life and “part of a deep-rooted conspiracy”.
The BJP had mentioned this was “tactics to gain sympathy.” Several Opposition leaders had condemned the “attack” and state Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury had referred to as it “siyasi pakhand (political hypocrisy).”
In a petition submitted by six occasion MPs to the EC in New Delhi on Friday — the second petition in three days; the primary was submitted in Kolkata on Wednesday — the TMC alleged the assault on Mamata was orchestrated via social media feedback by BJP leaders, the elimination of the Director-General of the state police, and the “planting of eyewitnesses”.
A BJP delegation led by Union Minister Piyush Goyal and occasion basic secretary Bhupender Yadav had additionally met EC officers Friday and demanded an impartial inquiry.

Yadav mentioned that that they had requested the EC to make the video of the incident public and that the BJP had requested for particular observers to be appointed for the high-profile seat of Nandigram, which can see a contest between Mamata and her lieutenant-turned-BJP-leader Suvendu Adhikari.
TMC’s earlier declare that the alleged assault was linked to the elimination of the state police chief by the EC had drawn a pointy response from the ballot panel. While the Commission described the Nandigram incident as “unfortunate”, it criticised TMC’s allegation that the Commission had eliminated the police chief on the BJP’s behest. “It looks undignified to even respond to the allegations of all this being done at the behest of a particular political party,” the EC had mentioned in its letter to the occasion on Thursday.