Assembly Election 2021 LIVE Updates 13-4-21

People queue to cast their vote at a polling station in Guwahati during the third phase of the Assembly elections in Assam. AP

Assembly Election 2021 LATEST updates: AIUDF candidate Karim Uddin Barbhuiya stated that “five-six BJP contestants” in the recently concluded Assam Assembly elections have contacted the party promising support for the Congress-led Grand Alliance of which he is part of Badruddin Ajmal’s team.

The BJP has dismissed the claim.

BJP President JP Nadda speaking about TMC’skhela hobe‘(the game will be played) slogan, said on Tuesday that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s situation is that of a’ defeated player ‘.

Shah said the TMC ruling “selectively” dropped the cases filed during the 2017 Darjeeling violence. He promised that if the BJP were elected to power, it would drop all FIRs against Gorkhas within a week.

Ghosh has been asked to respond to the advisory and make his position on his comments clear before 10 a.m. Wednesday.

Change Mamata Didi and bring a CM BJP, the party will provide Scheduled Tribe status to 11 castes of the Gorkha community, the interior minister said Tuesday in Darjeeling.

In its order against the supreme TMC, the EC cited its repeated taunts against central forces that questioned its political neutrality and its call on minority voters not to divide their votes between different political parties.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee started a dharna on Tuesday at Gandhi Murti in Kolkata, ANI reported, as a sign of protest against what it called the Election Commission’s “unconstitutional decision” to ban her from campaigning for 24 hours. in ongoing state Assembly polls. .

On Twitter, the supreme of TMC said on Monday: “To protest against the undemocratic and unconstitutional decision of the Election Commission of India, I will sit in dharna tomorrow at Gandhi.
Murti, Kolkata from 12 noon “.

The poll panel’s order came after Mamata’s comments against central forces and a statement that had carried religious overtones.

“The Commission hereby condemns such statements with serious public order problems throughout the state and severely warns Mamata Banerjee and advises her to desist from using such statements while making public statements during the period in which the Model Code of Conduct is in force, “the commission said in its order.

The Assembly elections in West Bengal began on March 27, and the remaining four of the eight phases of the elections will be held between April 17 and 29.

Members of the Trinammol Congress joined Mamata in criticizing the voting panel for its decision on her.

TMC National Vice President Yashwant Sinha said that all institutions of democracy have been compromised, with a strong impact on the EC.

“We always had a doubt about the impartiality of the EC. But, today it has shed any pretense it had. It is now clear that the EC is acting at the behest of Modi / Shah and under his direct order. Every institution of democracy is Engaged today. What hope do we have? “he tweeted.

Echoing him, other senior party leaders claimed that the electoral panel was behaving like a “wing of the BJP” and that its decision smacked of authoritarianism.

Derek O’Brien, the ruling party MP Rajya Sabha, said it was a black day for India’s democracy.

“EC stands for Extremely Committed. April 12 is a BLACK DAY in our democracy. I always knew we were winning Bengal,” O’Brien tweeted.

Another party leader, Kunal Ghosh, said the decision to ban the TMC chief from campaigning for 24 hours is “egregious and smells of authoritarianism.”

“The EC is behaving like a wing of the BJP. The ban is egregious and smells of authoritarianism. The sole objective of the EC is to prevent Mamata from campaigning because the BJP has already felt defeat. This is shameful,” he said.

However, the BJP welcomed the decision and accused TMC of vitiating the discourse of the polls.

“The EC did the right thing. The way the TMC leaders are instigating the people against the EC and the central forces is unacceptable,” said BJP leader Sourav Sikdar.