Allegations of Vote Count Manipulation and Intimidation in Bengal

TPG, TMC,

If the CPMU of Aman gets a few seats,

I will call that this people's mandate,

an unadulterated people's mandate.

Of course, those of us who are used to the tricks of Bengal's voting,

we know that on election day,

at the counting table,

what happens is, first,

the opposition agents who are sitting there,

during counting, wherever possible,

there they are threatened and intimidated,

if they protest or argue even a little,

then with a couple of slaps to the ear,

the police will stand in front and watch,

they will smirk a little, then whisper

and say, why are you creating trouble?

If you stay here, you can see, your share

will increase, it will be quietly cut off for you.

And once that is cut off,

then suppose, on one EVM,

the BJP has actually got 650 votes,

and TMC has actually got 130 votes,

during the counting,

it will become 650 for TMC

and 150 for BJP,

or for Congress or whatever.

There is no one to contest it.

What does that mean? It means what I just told you all.

We, the police,

the police, the goons,

This pack, this gang of four

is called the evil circle.

This evil foursome

From the hands of this evil foursome

the election

must be protected.

The election

must be protected.

Those who, on that voting day,

in exchange for ferrying the rulers

across,

spend the remaining 364 days of the year

crushing people’s lives

like the dirt of the street,

doing whatever they please,

stealing, robbing,

bullying people,

and this corruption and

misrule

has reached such a point that

you cannot even imagine

that Bengali society is so bound in shackles,

so ruled by miscreants,

this Bengali society. In my past seventy-one years of life, I have never seen anything like this.