Diamond Harbour, April 26 -- In a high-octane escalation of the electoral battle in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress (TMC) General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee has alleged a clandestine collusion between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and an election official.

Addressing a gathering in his constituency, Banerjee claimed to have "exposed" a secret meeting at a local hotel, framing the subsequent transfer of district police officials by the Election Commission (EC) as an act of political vendetta.

Banerjee provided specific details of the alleged meeting, claiming that a BJP candidate met with an official identified as Purushottam Das in Room No. 208 of the Sagarika Hotel in Diamond Harbour. He asserted that the meeting was intended to co...