Ms Banerjee's lawyer and TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee said, “She came to the HC to affirm the election petition which she filed challenging the election of Mr Adhikari since the election was conducted improperly.
Kolkata:Trinamul Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee went to the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday when an election petition was filed challenging her defeat in the recent polls in her home turf Bhowanipore to the BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari, now the West Bengal Chief Minister.
This was the second time the TMC chief visited the High Court after losing power. She had appeared as a lawyer on May 14 to argue against the post-poll violence and hawker eviction after BJP formed its first government in the state. The former CM however faced protests by a group of lawyers on the HC premises then.
This time, party MLA Kunal Ghosh and two Rajya Sabha MPs, Derek O'Brien and Dola Sen, accompanied her during her visit at around 2 pm to file her plea against Adhikari's victory by a margin of 15,105 votes.
Banerjee's lawyer and TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee said, “She came to the HC to affirm the election petition which she filed challenging the election of Mr Adhikari since the election was conducted improperly. After 12 rounds of counting of votes, her election agent and the candidate herself were assaulted and driven out of the counting centre. These are the points there.”
Interestingly, Banerjee had filed a similar petition at the HC after losing to Adhikari in his home turf Nandigram in 2021. The matter is still pending after a couple of rounds of hearing.
