Amidst the fourth round of polls in West Bengal, a political controversy has erupted after BJP's IT cell released an audio clip of Trinamool' election strategist Prashant Kishor in which he was heard saying a 'ClubHouse' chat that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is hugely popular in West Bengal and this is one of the factors that will decide which party sweeps the state.
West Bengal elections have already witnessed a lot of violence, EVM controversy, code of conduct violations etc and now the battle between TMC and BJP has further heated after election strategist Prashant Kishor’s 'ClubHouse' chat has got leaked.
BJP's IT cell chief Amit Malviya in a series of tweets this morning has claimed that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's election strategist Prashant Kishor had accepted the BJP's victory. Malviya shared the audio of Prashant Kishor's discussion on the ClubHouse platform on social media. In this, Kishor is chatting with some journalists.
Malviya, the National in-charge of BJP's Information & Technology in the tweet said, “In a public chat on ClubHouse, Mamata Banerjee's election strategist concedes that even in TMC's internal surveys, BJP is winning. The vote is for Modi, polarisation is a reality, the SCs (27 per cent of WB's population), Matuas are all voting for the BJP”.
Another candid admission by Kishor is that -- all that the Left, Congress and TMC ecosystem have done in the last 20 years is Muslim appeasement. Implication? It has resulted in resentment on the ground. The speakers had not realised that the chat was public, Malviya wrote.
“That moment when Mamata Banerjee's strategist realised that the ClubHouse room was open and his admissions were being heard by the public at large and not just a handful of journalist. Deafening silence followed”, Malviya added.
Meanwhile, Prashant Kishor, who worked for Mamata Banerjee and is now appointed as Principal Secretary to Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh, was quick to react. On his official twitter handle, Kishor tweeted, "I am happy that the people of BJP are taking my clubHouse chat more seriously than the statements of their leaders. I appeal to them to release the entire conversation except for some part of the chat”.
In the part that has been released, the question was
being answered about how BJP is getting 40 per cent votes and how it has been
thinking that the BJP is winning. He also said through social media that the
BJP will not be able to cross the 100 mark in Bengal elections" Kishore
tweeted.