A day after the Bharatiya Janata Party leaked an audiotape of the West Bengal Chief Minister on Friday, 16 April, she hit back at the party and accused them of tapping her conversations.
In the audio that was leaked by BJP IT Cell head Amit Malviya on Friday, the woman’s voice, alleged to be Mamata’s, can be heard asking TMC Sitalkuchi candidate Partha Pratim Ray to keep the bodies so that the party could hold a rally with the dead.
She also allegedly told him he should concentrate on the vote, that this was done to keep people from voting and that she will take care of the DM, SP of the area.
This call was about the Cooch Behar incident where four people were killed after the CISF had decided to shoot them in self defence. “Recourse to open fire by CISF personnel became absolutely necessary in order to save lives of voters lined up at the polling booth, those of other polling personnel, and their own lives as the mob had attempted to snatch their weapons,” the Election Commission said in a statement.