West Bengal Elections: Protect booths like forts, Surjya Kanta Mishra asks CPI(M) workers

Wary of booth capturing by ruling Trinamool Congress workers in the Assembly election, CPI(M) politburo member Surjya Kanta Mishra today asked his party workers to keep vigil and protect the polling booths like forts.

He also asked them to resist capturing of booths. "Booths should be protected like forts. There should not be any chink left. Resist all bids to capture them," Mishra, also CPI(M) West Bengal secretary, said at an election meeting.

Exuding confidence that the Left-Congress combination would win the Assembly election, he asked party workers to protect the houses of Trinamool Congress supporters also as "we do not want a repeat of the incidents that occurred five years ago". He was referring to the "attacks" on Left workers following Trinamool Congress' victory in the 2011 Assembly election.

Mishra also claimed that the Left will win majority of the 18 seats where election was held on April 4. "A section of Trinamool Congress workers are keeping contact with us as they have realised their party is going to be defeated in the election," Mishra claimed. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's "directions to the police are coming to us through TMC workers," he said.
Mishra charged Banerjee with using 'looted money and chit fund money' to fly in helicopters for campaigning.