Mamata Banerjee's petition challenging Subhendu Adhikari's Nandigram victory has been assigned to a judge in the Calcutta High Court who was close to the BJP before he became a judge, say Trinamool Congress sources. West Bengal CM's lawyer has written to the Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal on this.
A plea has been filed in Delhi High Court on Tuesday seeking directions to the Election Commission to take actions against the star campaigners and leaders of all political parties who participated in assembly polls in West Bengal for allegedly violating Covid -19 norms.