Mamata Begins Assembly Session With Attacks On Centre, Poll Panel
The New Indian Express Chennai|May 09, 2021
Claims the BJP would not have won even 30 seats had it not been for support from the EC
Pranab Mondal
Mamata Begins Assembly Session With Attacks On Centre, Poll Panel

ON the first day of the Assembly session after the new government was sworn in, West Bengal Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday lashed out at the Centre over “stepmotherly treatment” and slammed the election Commission for helping the BJP in the elections.

Addressing the House, Mamata said had the election Commission not helped the BJP, the saffron camp would not even have won 30 seats. None of the BJP’s 77 elected MLAs, who took oath on Friday, was present in the House on Saturday as the party’s West Bengal leader Dilip Ghosh had directed them to boycott the proceedings in protest against the post-poll violence against the BJP workers.

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