DM Monitoring
West Bengal: A day after a purported audio-tape in which West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is heard proposing a rally with the bodies of Cooch Behar firing victims surfaced, Mamata Banerjee alleged that her phone is being tapped and said she will order a CID probe into it.
Banerjee also exuded confidence that the Trinamool Congress will form the government in West Bengal for the third consecutive term with a two-thirds majority.
Addressing an election rally at Galsi, she accused the BJP of being involved in the audio clip conspiracy as the saffron party “cannot match” the ruling Trinamool Congress’ campaigning on development programmes.
“They (BJP leaders) are even eavesdropping on our everyday conversation. It seems they are tapping our phone calls on cooking and other household chores. I will order a CID probe into it and not spare anyone involved in such snooping activities. I have already come to know who is behind this,” the TMC supremo said. Banerjee also claimed she has information that the “central forces are being involved in such acts with some agents”. “It is clear that the BJP is behind it though they claimed they have no role in it,” she said.
A controversy erupted on Friday after the BJP released the purported audio clip in which Banerjee is heard telling the Trinamool Congress nominee of Sitalkuchi to hold rallies with bodies of the four persons killed in CISF firing during polling on April 10. Claiming that such a conversation never took place, the TMC had described the audio clip as “bogus” and wondered whether the Centre was tapping a chief minister’s phone.
Launching an attack on the Election Commission for not clubbing the remaining three phases of the ongoing assembly elections, she accused the poll panel of “paying heed” to the demands of the BJP. “You (EC) have curtailed the campaigning hours, and in the name of restrictions, you are doing whatever the BJP demands,” the CM said.
