Had Gyanesh Kumar not been CEC, I would've chopped his finger for raising it at Mamata: TMC MP

KOLKATA: (Mar 6) TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee on Friday triggered a political controversy after saying he would have "cut the finger" of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar had the latter not been holding the constitutional post, alleging that the poll panel chief had behaved "very badly" with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

The senior TMC leader and lawyer remarked while addressing supporters at a rally in Kolkata during protests by the ruling party against alleged arbitrary deletions in the electoral rolls following the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision (SIR).

Referring to an alleged exchange between Kumar and Banerjee last month when the CM had gone to New Delhi to meet him and register her protest against SIR, the Serampore MP said, "CEC behaved very badly with her. He dared to raise his finger at the CM. If he had not been the CEC, I would have cut his finger that day."