INDIA bloc writes to CJI, flags EC’s ‘biased conduct’
The meeting was convened at the insistence of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee following the Trinamool Congress’s defeat in the West Bengal Assembly polls. She had urged INDIA bloc leaders to visit the State to project Opposition unity. However, a senior leader said, “When all else fails, Indian democracy looks towards the judiciary.
- ▪The meeting was convened at the insistence of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee following the Trinamool Congress’s defeat in the West Bengal Assembly polls.
- ▪She had urged INDIA bloc leaders to visit the State to project Opposition unity.
- ▪However, a senior leader said, “When all else fails, Indian democracy looks towards the judiciary.
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Twenty-three Opposition parties have sent a joint memorandum to the Chief Justice of India, Justice Surya Kant, alleging “biased” conduct by the Election Commission, highlighting the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) carried out in States such as West Bengal and Bihar, as well as the ongoing exercise in other States.The DMK and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the two political parties that were not present at the INDIA bloc meeting, have also signed the letter. AAP is not a part of the bloc, while the DMK had informed its allies that it would not attend the meeting, rebuking the Congress for what it described as a post-election “betrayal” after the party switched sides to the TVK-led government in the State following the alliance’s defeat in the Tamil Nadu Assembly polls.The decision to send a…
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