Kolkata: Months after losing the poll battle at Nandigram in the West Bengal Assembly Elections 2021, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday moved Calcutta High Court, challenging the election result in Nandigram where BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari emerged victorious. The Calcutta High Court will hear the matter on Friday.
In Nandigram, which was one of the most crucial poll battles, BJP leader Adhikari defeated the TMC supremo by a margin of nearly 2,000 votes in the recently concluded Assembly Polls 2021.
While Suvendu Adhikari had bagged 1,10,764 votes, Mamata Banerjee secured 1,08808 votes, the poll panel had confirmed at the time.
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee moves Calcutta High Court, challenging Assembly election result in Nandigram where BJP's Suvendu Adhikari emerged victorious
Court to hear the matter tomorrow
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However, this led to massive confusion on the day of the results on May 2 about who had actually won the Nandigram seat after reports stated that Mamata Banerjee had defeated Adhikari though there was no confirmation from the Election Commission.
The Trinamool Congress supremo, in her petition, has accused Adhikari of committing corrupt practices as envisaged under Section 123 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951.
The alleged corrupt practices included “bribery, undue influence, spreading enmity”, according to her petition. Banerjee also claimed in her plea that discrepancies were committed in the counting process.
Alleging discrepancies and malpractices in the counting process and refusal of requests for recounting of votes by the returning officer, Banerjee had said following declaration of the results that the doors of the court would be knocked on the issue. BJP MLA Suvendu Adhikari is at present the leader of the opposition in the West Bengal assembly.
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