: Thursday, January 21, 2021, 4:30 PM IST
Kolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim meets EC; accuses BJP of using BSF troops to 'terrorise people' for votes
With the West Bengal Assembly elections only scant months away, the political furore in the state continues to grow. There have been allegations and counter-allegations, defections and fights for quite some time. Now, the ruling Trinamool Congress claims that the BJP is trying to use members of the Indian Armed Forces to persuade voters. Incidentally, this claim has been rejected by officials.
TMC leader and Kolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim on Thursday met with representatives of the Election Commission claiming that the BJP was sending the Border Security Force (BSF) to villages along the state border and 'terrorising people' in a bid to solicit votes. Speaking to news agency ANI after the meeting with EC officials, he said that the organisation had said that it would look into the allegation.