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West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee asserted that the Trinamool Congress (TMC) would lodge a complaint with the Election Commission (EC) if Prime Minister Narendra Modi's upcoming meditation session in Kanyakumari is televised.

 

Banerjee alleged that broadcasting the event would breach the Model Code of Conduct (MCC). 

 

PM Modi is set to meditate at the Vivekananda Rock Memorial post Lok Sabha polls, as per BJP sources.

 

"We will lodge a complaint. He can meditate, but TV coverage is prohibited," Banerjee stated, deeming it a MCC violation. 

 

She questioned the necessity of filming meditation, branding it as campaigning during the election silence period. 

 

Reportedly, Modi plans to meditate from May 30 to June 1 at Dhyana Mandapam, where Swami Vivekananda had a vision of 'Bharat Mata'. 

 

Banerjee, addressing an election rally, alleged Modi's tradition of meditating for 48 hours before the final poll phase, reminiscent of his post-2019 campaign meditation in Kedarnath.

 

Accusing the BJP government of privatising state-owned companies, Banerjee voiced her concerns at the same venue where PM Modi had campaigned for a BJP candidate in Jadavpur constituency.

 

"If they (BJP) come back to power this time, there will not be any political party, elections, independence, religion, humanity or culture," she said.

 

The TMC supremo sought to reject Modi's statement that the BJP will emerge with the best results this election in Bengal, stating, "This means they have lost, they will get rosogolla (zero) in Bengal." 

 

Stating that the TMC will give its "support" to the opposition INDIA alliance for forming a government in Delhi, she urged the people not to vote for the CPI(M) or Congress in Bengal.

 

"That will help the BJP," she said, in the campaign meeting at Baruipur before the seventh phase election to nine Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal, which has a total of 42 seats.

 

"Had I not come out of the Congress and formed the Trinamool Congress, then even today we would not have been able to defeat the CPI(M) in Bengal," she said.

 

Stating that she fought against the CPI(M) for 34 years to throw its government out of Bengal, she said "If we could achieve that, we can also defeat the BJP and we will do it."