EC chief told us to ‘get lost’ during meeting about Bengal polls, claims TMC

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The Trinamool Congress on Wednesday claimed that Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar told a party delegation to “get lost” when it approached the poll panel to express concerns about officials allegedly linked to the Bharatiya Janata Party being made part of the West Bengal polling process.

A delegation comprising Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MPs Derek O’Brien, Sagarika Ghose and Menaka Guruswamy, and party spokesperson Saket Gokhale had met the Election Commission at its Delhi office on Wednesday with a memorandum demanding that officials involved in the electoral process must maintain neutrality.

“The chief election commissioner told us within seven minutes of the meeting to ‘get lost’,” ANI quoted O’Brien as having claimed while speaking with reporters.

He said that the Trinamool Congress had asked the Election Commission how free and fair polls could be held when the panel was transferring officials.

“He [Kumar] said ‘leave from here’ when we told him that he was not letting his fellow officers speak,” O’Brien was quoted as having claimed. “What I saw today is a shame. I challenge the Election Commissioner to release the video or audio of what happened today.”

The Trinamool Congress MP said that all “like-minded anti-BJP parties” will hold a press conference around 4 pm on the matter.