Union Home Minister Amit Shah today said he would really like to understand how a alleged recording of a call involving BJP leader Mukul Roy was leaked yesterday. The conversation implied that he could influence the committee amid the continued polls in West Bengal .
Speaking at a news conference in New Delhi , Mr Shah also expressed confidence within the BJP’s stellar performance within the first phase of polls which concluded yesterday.
“Two BJP leaders were discussing over a call the stress made for transfer (of officers). These demands were made in writing. there’s nothing secret during this . The question which must be raised is that who tapped the call ,” Mr Shah said.
The alleged phone conversation between Mr Roy and therefore the BJP’s Shishir Bijoria was yesterday released by the Trinamool, potentially damaging the opposition party and hurting the non-partisan position of the committee . Mr Roy is allegedly heard asking Mr Bijoria to incorporate an inventory of things to be raised with the poll panel, with one specific request being about polling agents or booth agents of political parties.
Mr Roy then apparently says that the poll body need to be requested to pass administrative orders permitting any voter anywhere in Bengal to be booth agents at any booth within the state, which if this wasn’t done, the BJP won’t be ready to field agents in many booths.
Mr Shah today said the BJP would win 26 of the 30 seats polled in Bengal yesterday, whereas for Assam, he pegged it at 37 out of the 47.
He congratulated the committee for successfully holding peaceful polls in West Bengal after years. “It is after years that polling has been completed without anyone dying, any bomb blasts, or repolling…the BJP will form a government in West Bengal with over 200 seats,” Mr Shah said.
