Kolkata (IANS) | State Congress President in West Bengal and Lok Sabha member Adhir Ranjan Chowdhary has written to senior party leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi from his party high command in New Delhi to represent the state election commission and the government in the Supreme Court in the matter of deployment of central armed forces for the panchayat polls. Appealed to stop representing. The state government has filed a petition in the apex court challenging the decision of a division bench of the Calcutta High Court to deploy central forces across the state. Both the Congress and the BJP have filed caveats on this in the Supreme Court, so that there is no one-sided hearing of the matter.
State Congress sources said Chowdhary has brought the matter to the notice of the party’s national president Mallikarjun Kharge and has requested him to ensure that Singhvi and other party leaders, who are country’s top lawyers, represent the state government in the court or Do not represent the State Election Commission.
Singhvi had recently faced the ire of the West Bengal unit of the Congress for favoring the Trinamool Congress in the Supreme Court. Chowdhary had also called for a complete boycott of Singhvi.
Chowdhary said Singhvi had accepted similar briefs for the Trinamool Congress in the Saradha chit fund and Narada video tape scam cases. At that time also as State Congress President I had clearly said that we do not want his presence in any party program in West Bengal and now I am saying it again. We are calling for a complete boycott of Singhvi.
Addressing a party rally last week, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had made it clear that there was no question of the Trinamool Congress supporting the Congress in West Bengal, as the Congress had defeated the CPI(M) in the state. have joined hands with.
–IANS
