Trinamool (TMC) supremo and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday wrote to the Election Commission of India (ECI) to ensure ‘peaceful and impartial’ voting in the state on Sunday, the last phase of Lok Sabha Elections 2019, without the interference of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The EC should ensure that Sunday’s polling is held without the ‘undue interference of the central government’ and any ‘intervention by the ruling party at the Centre’, she reportedly said.
“In the final phase of the election tomorrow, I would request your good office to kindly ensure that election is completed peacefully, impartially and without any undue interference of the Central government and any intervention by the ruling party at the centre,” Banerjee wrote to Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora.
She also requested the poll body to ‘protect democratic institutions and federal structure of the country and extend due respect to the opposition parties’, reported news agency.