TMC Fears Mass Arrests of Party Workers Ahead of Elections

The ruling party fears that the Election Commission may arrest 800 TMC workers in the state. The TMC has approached the Calcutta High Court. On Monday, a division bench of Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Parthasarathi Sen drew its attention to this. The court allowed the filing of the case. On behalf of the TMC workers, advocate Kalyan Banerjee told the court that the National Election Commission has taken the names of about 800 TMC workers from every constituency of the assembly through the police. They are feared to be arrested. The court should intervene immediately. The permission to file a case and an early hearing has been sought. After filing the case, the court has indicated that the case will be heard next Wednesday. Over the past few days, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has repeatedly expressed fears that the TMC people are being arrested. TMC agents have been planned to be arrested in the face of the vote. Therefore, the Trinamool supremo has also ordered to keep the parallel machinery or alternative arrangements ready so that there is no disturbance in the polls. More than 2 lakh people have already been detained by the Election Commission for free elections.