The BJP at present has only the Darjeeling seat which it had won with the support of Gorkha Janmukti Morcha and its best result was in 1999 when it secured two seats.
A four-member BJP team, led by Javadekar, met Sunil Gupta, the Chief Electoral Officer of West Bengal, and demanded that additional forces be deployed and steps taken to prevent rigging of elections.
“This we have done as there is a possibility that Trinamool Congress and Congress may resort to rigging in the last phase as they have done in the earlier phases. “After 20 years of electoral reforms, for the first time there has been rigging in West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh,” Javadekar claimed.
“Therefore we went in a delegation and asked them to be more vigilant and deploy more forces, more cameras, more videography and more micro-observers and many other steps to ensure free and fair polls,” the BJP leader said adding they have also given a list of sensitive booths to the CEO.
“The Trinamool is particularly disturbed and it is a do or die for them. So I asked the EC to be more cautious,” he said about the election to 17 constituencies, of which 14 are held by the ruling Trinamool Congress. He said tomorrow BJP leaders would meet the Central Election Commission in Delhi also in this regard.
