EC FIR against TMC candidate

Election Commission today filed an FIR against Trinamool Congress candidate Sonali Guha for allegedly intimidating CPI-M polling agents and interfering with the electoral process.
"Beat up and drive out CPI-M agents. They have damaged the EVM," Guha was heard telling someone over mobile phone during polling during the day. She was caught on camera by TV channels.
State Additional Director General of Police (law and order) Anuj Sharma said a case was started against Guha for allegedly interfering in the electoral process, disobeying orders of a public servant and criminal intimidation.
Guha, also the deputy speaker in the outgoing West Bengal Assembly, is the Trinamool Congress candidate for South 24 Parganas district's Satgachia constituency which went to the polls in the fifth and penultimate phase today.

Election Commission officials said they had asked district authorities to file an FIR against her after hearing her comments on TV.
In one of the booths in her constituency, voting was halted for sometime after an EVM was found to be malfunctioning.

On hearing this, Guha had gone to the booth and tried to check the EVM herself but was stopped by the central armed forces.
When contacted for her reaction to the EC's order, Guha told PTI: "I have done no wrong and I don't want to give any reaction."
Asked whether she had indeed asked her party cadres to assault CPI(M) agents, Guha said, "I will just say I have done no wrong.