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CM Mamata Banerjee Sits on Dharna to Protest Against EC’s Ban

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee sits on dharna at Gandhi Murti in Kolkata, as a mark of protest after the Election Commission (EC) imposed a ban on her for 24 hours from campaigning in any manner from 8 pm on April 12 till 8 pm on April 13.

While sitting on the dharna she is keeping herself busy by painting.

The Election Commission on Monday banned Mamata Banerjee from campaigning in the ongoing state elections for 24 hours and said she had made “highly insinuating and provocative remarks laden with the serious potential of the breakdown of law and order and thereby affecting the election process”.

The ban comes into force ahead of the fifth phase of Assembly polls in the state on April 17. The poll panel in its order condemned her statements “portent with serious law and order problems across the state (s)” and sternly warned her. It advised her “to desist from using such statements while making public utterances during the period when Model Code of Conduct is in force.”

Following this, Trinamool Congress MP Derek O’Brien called the EC’s move a ‘black day for democracy’.