Mamata Tape
BJP demands SIT probe into viral Mamata audio tape over Sitalkuchi firing
Kolkata/IBNS: The West Bengal unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday demanded a probe into the viral audio tape of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee where she was heard instructing her party candidate to frame police officials over the violence in Sitalkuchi.
A BJP delegation on Saturday met the Election Commission and urged it to order a probe into the audio tape by a Special Investigation Team (SIT).
A four-member delegation, comprising party leaders Swapan Dasgupta, Shishir Bajoria, Ashwini Vaishnaw and Shoumendu Mukherji, has alleged that audio tape was circulated by Mamata's men in the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) to "polarise the votes of a particular community on religious lines".
The audio tape, which was released by BJP IT Cell head Amit Malviya last evening, has not been verified by IBNS independently.
In the audio tape, Mamata was heard instructing her Sitalkuchi candidate Partha Pratim Roy to take out a procession (rally) of the bodies of the four people, who were shot dead by CISF personnel at one booth.
Mamata was heard asking Roy to lodge a First Information Report (FIR) through lawyers and not the family of the deceased.
She also said the FIR should be filed in a way that the SP and IC are also framed along with the CISF (mentioned as CRPF in the tape) commandant.
"We have to frame the SP and IC also," she was purportedly heard saying, asking the candidate to file FIRs after consulting lawyers.
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