Kolkata, April 14 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday expressed apprehension that the police, under the instructions of the Election Commission of India (ECI), might arrest booth agents of her Trinamool Congress at the last moment so that elections are conducted in those booths without their presence.

“The arrest of Trinamool Congress’s booth agents has been ordered so that they cannot sit in the polling booths. So you should keep alternatives ready. If one booth agent is arrested, the alternative person should take that person’s place. If necessary, the women members of your family will have to play the roles of booth agents,” Banerjee, who is also the Trinamool chief, said while addressing a campaign rally at Pingla in West Midnapore district.

She also asserted that she would proceed to the ultimate extent to re-include the names of those voters in the voters’ list whose names have been deleted in the course of the judicial adjudication.

“For you, I have moved to the Supreme Court. I have fought the battle on the ground for your sake. I will ensure the re-inclusion of deleted names at any cost. If I cannot make that happen now, surely I will ensure that in the coming days,” the Chief Minister said.

Accusing the ECI of harassing the common people in the name of special intensive revision, the Chief Minister said that the exercise had already taken a toll of 250 lives in West Bengal. “You have to take revenge through your ballots. Your vote for Trinamool Congress will be that revenge,” she said.

Hitting out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), she said that in her long political career, she had never witnessed such a dirty political game as she is witnessing now. “I have been in politics for a long time. I had operated as a central minister before. But I have never witnessed such a dirty political game which BJP is playing now.”

However, she added, that despite playing such a dirty political game, the BJP would not be successful in achieving its target to capture West Bengal this time. “We will also play our game to drive the BJP out,” she asserted.

–IANS

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