EC Imposes 24-Hr Campaign Ban on Mamata, CM Announces Dharna

The ban will be in force from 8 pm on 12 April till 8 pm on 13 April.

The Election Commission on Monday, 12 April, imposed a 24-hour campaigning ban on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for her “highly insinuating” and “provocative remarks,” which the poll body said were laden with “serious potential of breakdown of law and order.”

Calling the ban undemocratic and unconstitutional, the chief minister voiced her protest against the EC notice by announcing a dharna.

“I will sit on dharna tomorrow at Gandhi Murti, Kolkata from 12 noon,” Banerjee wrote in a tweet.