Mamata asked Shah to repeal EC decision: Suvendu

April 18, 2023 23:25

Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday claimed that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had dialled Union Home Minister Amit Shah after the Election Commission revoked Trinamool Congress's national party status to request him to repeal the decision.

Adhikari's remarks drew a sharp retort from Bengal's ruling party, which dubbed the Leader of Opposition in the state assembly as a 'habitual liar'.

The EC withdrew the national party status of the TMC, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Communist Party of India (CPI) last week.

"Yesterday, we saw how Mamata Banerjee had demanded the resignation of Amit Shah. But, after the EC revoked the national party status, she had repeatedly called him to request that the decision be repealed. It, however, did not yield any result," Adhikari said, while addressing a rally at Singur in Hooghly district.

He also reiterated that the TMC would cease to be even a state party in future.

Reacting to Adhikari's comment, TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh asserted there is not even an iota of truth in it.

"Suvendu Adhikari is a habitual liar. We have seen how he has earlier brazenly lied about several political developments. His remarks are baseless and don't have an iota of truth. Having a national party status or not is notional. It is not going to impact the growth of the TMC," Ghosh said.

Banerjee had on Monday slammed Shah for 'conspiring to topple' her government before its natural term in office ended, following his remarks last week at a rally, where he claimed that the TMC government in Bengal would not survive beyond 2025 if the BJP wins 35 seats in next year's Lok Sabha polls. -- PTI

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