Even as Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that the civic polls were peaceful and thanked the people for their support to the TMC, the Opposition parties claimed that the elections did not reflect the verdict of the people as it was marred by the large scale rigging by the ruling party.
Denying the allegations, Ms. Banerjee pointed out that one person died in the civic polls and he was a TMC worker. “Out of about 4,000 booths in the KMC polls, there were complaints from only 15 booths. The Opposition is raising such a hue and cry about rigging. If there was rigging, would our Councillors lose,” she said here on Tuesday.
Ms. Banerjee instructed party workers not to take out any victory rallies in view of the devastating earthquake in Nepal.
She accused a section of media of trying to malign the image of her party by indulging in a “slander campaign” against the TMC.
“Some media houses published false news against the Trinamool and indulged in baseless personal attacks. In other States they would have been taken to task,” said Ms. Banerjee.
Opposition parties, however, claimed that large scale violence and rigging was behind TMC’s success in the civic polls. State Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said that by rigging the TMC achieved only electoral victory but not a political victory.
