“This is not Pakistan, where you can use armed forces to remove someone from power,” said the Trinamool Congress politician Tapash Chatterjee, his voice rising in disbelief. “In our country, leaders have always been changed democratically.”
Chatterjee, who joined the Trinamool in 2015, was till last week the MLA from Rajarhat New Town, a suburban seat near Kolkata airport. His was one of the 207 seats that the Bharatiya Janata Party won as it stormed to power for the first time in West Bengal.
However, Chatterjee insists that the election was stolen from him. He points out that he finished with more votes than anybody else when counting concluded late on the night of May 4. The data put out by the Election Commission of India bears this out.
Although Chatterjee had secured the highest number of votes at the end of the day, election officials did not give him a certificate declaring his win. The next day, these officials added some more votes to the candidates’ tally and awarded the seat to the BJP.
His constituency is now at the centre of the controversy over what happened in Bengal on the day of the results.
The Trinamool claims that the BJP colluded with the Election Commission to slow down the counting...
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