Kolkata Nov 30 PTI West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Tuesday said he has assured of taking up with the State Election Commission a BJP delegations demand for deployment of central armed forces for fair and peaceful municipal polls Elections to the Kolkata Municipal Corporation are scheduled to be held on December 19 and polls to the other municipal bodies are likely in phases thereafter A delegation of the BJP called on and strongly urged that for impartial independent and fair municipal elections it is necessary that central armed police force be positioned Dhankhar said in a video on Twitter I will take up the matter with the State Election Commission and deal with the issue appropriately he saidDelegation leader Raju Banerjee alleged that BJP candidates for the KMC elections and its workers are facing physical and verbal intimidation by ruling Trinamool Congress supporters We will also meet the State Election Commissioner tomorrow and place our demand for deployment of central police force Banerjee saidTMC MLA Tapas Roy however sought to remind the BJP of the outcome of the West Bengal assembly elections held earlier this year despite deployment of central forcesIt is the peoples support that matters the masses are with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee he asserted PTI AMR RBT RBT

Kolkata Nov 27 PTI BJP leader Raju Banerjee courted controversy on Saturday by saying that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee may campaign for the coming civic poll in the state in a stretcher faking injury after failing to counter in a fair manner the saffron camps spirited challenge during the canvassing The senior BJP leader alleged in a public meeting in the city that the Trinamool Congress supremo had resorted to unfair means by campaigning from a wheelchair in the last assembly poll faking an injury to her leg when she was unable to counter the the saffron party politically You Banerjee confined yourself in a wheelchair when you failed to fight the BJP politically You resorted to falsehood to counter BJP in the canvassing for the state assembly poll You will face an equally combative BJP who believes in fighting against you in a fierce democratic and peaceful manner during the coming civic polls and you will again resort to falsehood But even if you move around lying on a stretcher to earn voters sympathy this time rest assured you wont get votes for your candidates on the ground of sympathy any more said Banerjee who had unsuccessfully contested against TMC senior leaer Madan Mitra in the April-May assembly poll in Kamarhati said Strongly reacting to Banerjees comments TMC leader Baiswanor Chatterjee told reporters This is nothing but a threat by the irresponsible BJP leader Such comments reveal the undemocratic violent mindset of BJP Everyone knows how Mamata Banerjee was physically targeted during the first leg of the assembly poll campaign in Nandigram and suffered serious leg injury She was forced to continue campaigning in a wheel chair in the later phases risking her health Chatterjee said The TMC supremo had claimed that she was hurt in the leg in March while canvassing in Nandigram where she had taken on her former protege Suvendu Adhikari and lost by a slender margin She later won the by-poll in her home constituency Bhabanipur in Kolkata within the stipulated six-month period to retain her chief ministership PTI SUS KK KK KK