Day after DGP's removal, TMC wants SC to monitor LS polls

A day after the Election Commission ordered the immediate replacement of DGP Rajeev Kumar-a close confidante of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee - the Trinamool Congress today hit back at the poll panel.

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Senior Trinamool Congress leader Derek O'Brien alleged that the Election Commission had become an extension of the Bharatiya Janata Party and demanded that the Supreme Court should monitor the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

Reacting to Derek O'Brien's election tweet, West Bengal BJP President Sukanta Majumdar said that O'Brien and his party want to form a new Constitution. Sukanta Majumdar said: "Derek O'Brien and his party leaders want to make a new Constitution. Let us do one thing, we should let Mamata Banerjee write the new Constitution...ECI has been given the responsibility to conduct elections.

It will not work like the State Election Commission and do whatever Mamata Banerjee will say." Derek O'Brien said that the Trinamool Congress demanded a Supreme Court-monitored Lok Sabha polls considering BJP's alleged tricks of "destroying" institutions like the Election Commission of India.

The Rajya Sabha member asked whether the BJP is so nervous of facing the people that it is turning the poll panel into "its party office". "BJP's filthy tricks are destroying institutions like the Election Commission