Amidst the fourth round of polls in West Bengal, apolitical controversy has erupted after BJP's IT cell released an audio clip ofTrinamool' election strategist Prashant Kishor in which he was heard saying a'ClubHouse' chat that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is hugely popular in WestBengal and this is one of the factors that will decide which party sweeps thestate.
West Bengal elections have already witnessed a lot ofviolence, EVM controversy, code of conduct violations etc and now the battlebetween TMC and BJP has further heated after election strategist PrashantKishor’s 'ClubHouse' chat has got leaked.
BJP's IT cell chief Amit Malviya in a series of tweetsthis morning has claimed that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's electionstrategist Prashant Kishor had accepted the BJP's victory. Malviya shared theaudio of Prashant Kishor's discussion on the ClubHouse platform on socialmedia. 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, MamataBanerjee'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 (27per cent of WB's population), Matuas are all voting for the BJP”.
Another candid admission by Kishor is that -- all thatthe Left, Congress and TMC ecosystem have done in the last 20 years is Muslimappeasement. Implication? It has resulted in resentment on the ground. Thespeakers had not realised that the chat was public, Malviya wrote.
“That moment when Mamata Banerjee's strategist realisedthat the ClubHouse room was open and his admissions were being heard by thepublic at large and not just a handful of journalist. Deafening silencefollowed”, Malviya added.
Meanwhile, Prashant Kishor, who worked for MamataBanerjee and is now appointed as Principal Secretary to Punjab CM CaptainAmarinder Singh, was quick to react. On his official twitter handle, Kishortweeted, "I am happy that the people of BJP are taking my clubHouse chatmore seriously than the statements of their leaders. I appeal to them torelease the entire conversation except for some part of the chat”.
In the part that has been released, the question wasbeing answered about how BJP is getting 40 per cent votes and how it has beenthinking that the BJP is winning. He also said through social media that theBJP will not be able to cross the 100 mark in Bengal elections" Kishoretweeted.