Actor-turned-politician Moon Moon Sen, the Trinamool Congress candidate against BJP’s Babul Supriyo, said was unaware of clashes in her Asansol constituency as she had “woken up late”.
“They gave me my bed tea very late so I woke up very late. What can I say? I really don’t know,” Moon Moon Sen, actor-turned-politician, was quoted as saying by NDTV.
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On Monday, clashes erupted in West Bengal’s Asansol constituency with reports of the sitting MP Babul Supriyo’s car being vandalised on Monday, the fourth phase of polling for 72 seats across 9 states.
Supriyo, the BJP candidate from Asansol, was on his way to a polling booth in Barabani when his car was attacked. The rear windshield of his car was smashed in the resulting clashes outside polling booth number 199.
“I have come here just to see how the polling process is underway, but I found that voters are not being allowed to cast their ballots. Our fight is to establish democracy… It is shameful that I am saying this in a democratic country,” the minister said.
Sen had won the 2014 Lok Sabha elections by defeating the CPI(M) strongman Basudeb Acharia from Bankura. This time, she is locked in a close fight with Supriyo from Asansol constituency, which goes to polls today.