Rahul wants a tie-up with Mamata, says BJP
BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar told a press conference here, "What Rahul Gandhi has said is he wants cooperation of Mamata after the election. The Congress is desperate to stop Modi, so they are ready to support Mamata."
"This means voting for Mamata is voting for the Congress and voting for Congress is voting for Mamata," he alleged.
TMC will not get more than one or two seats: Javedekar
Javadekar, however, said this would not impress people as "they are not fools" and they would be voting for a decisive change.
Asked
if
the
Supreme
Court
order
directing
CBI
to
probe
the
Saradha
scam
would
affect
the
Trinamool
Congress' prospects
in
the
last
phase
of
elections
to
be
held
on
May
12,
Javadekar
said,
"TMC
will
have
to
fight
for
each
and
every
seat.
It
will
not
get
more
than
one
or
two
seats."
He
claimed
that
the
BJP
would
score
surprise
results
in
eastern
India
and
that
it
would
go
into
double
digits
in
Bengal
this
time.
The
BJP
at
present
has
only
the
Darjeeling
seat
which
it
had
won
with
the
support
of
Gorkha
Janmukti
Morcha
and
its
best
result
was
in
1999
when
it
secured
two
seats.
A
four-member
BJP
team,
led
by
Javadekar,
met
Sunil
Gupta,
the
Chief
Electoral
Officer
of
West
Bengal,
and
demanded
that
additional
forces
be
deployed
and
steps
taken
to
prevent
rigging
of
elections.
"This
we
have
done
as
there
is
a
possibility
that
Trinamool
Congress
and
Congress
may
resort
to
rigging
in
the
last
phase
as
they
have
done
in
the
earlier
phases.
"After
20
years
of
electoral
reforms,
for
the
first
time
there
has
been
rigging
in
West
Bengal
and
Uttar
Pradesh," Javadekar
claimed.
"Therefore we went in a delegation and asked them to be more vigilant and deploy more forces, more cameras, more videography and more micro-observers and many other steps to ensure free and fair polls," the BJP leader said adding they have also given a list of sensitive booths to the CEO.
"The
Trinamool
is
particularly
disturbed
and
it
is
a
do
or
die
for
them.
So
I
asked
the
EC
to
be
more
cautious," he
said
about
the
election
to
17
constituencies,
of
which
14
are
held
by
the
ruling
Trinamool
Congress.
He
said
BJP
leaders
would
meet
the
Central
Election
Commission
on
Sunday
in
Delhi
also
in
this
regard.
PTI