CPI general secretary requests EC for repolling in Diamond Harbor

CPI (M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury in a letter to the Election Commission has requested repolling in Diamond Harbor Parliamentary Constituency referring to enormous scale irregularities.

While Fuad Halim, son of former West Bengal Assembly Speaker Hashim Abdul Halim, was CPI (M) candidate, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's nephew Abhishek Banerjee was the Trinamool Congress' candidate for the Diamond Harbor Lok Sabha situate.

Mr. Yechury in his letter said the size of irregularities is with the end goal that EC in the event that it needs to ensure "free and reasonable" elections then it needs to arrange a re-polling in the entire constituency.

He has likewise additionally asserted that the BJP has entered into a comprehension with the TMC for last's help for its candidates in certain different bodies electorate like Mathurapur, Jadavpur, and so forth, in return for the BJP's help to Abhishek Banerjee candidate.

Prior, CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury said he had addressed the chief election commissioner about the viciousness in West Bengal in the last phase of the Lok Sabha polls.

"Addressed CEC Shri Sunil Arora Ji, advised him of the enormous scale endeavors at gear and brutality in Dum, Diamond Harbor, Kolkata Uttar, Jadavpur. He has assured us. We trust at this last phase of the poll, they can ensure that individuals are permitted to cast a ballot, freely and reasonably," the Left leader said in a tweet after the last phase of Lok Sabha polls.