New Delhi:
Mamata Bannerjee made history Wednesday by arguing a case – the challenge to the Election Commission’s special intensive revision of voter lists – in the Supreme Court as a ‘common citizen’.
In her typically fiery oratory style she denounced the EC for inflicting “unprecedented hardship and distress upon ordinary citizens across Bengal”.
The Bengal Chief Minister, a black shawl over her trademark white saree, waited her turn patiently, sitting for over two hours in the rear of a courtroom led by Chief Justice Surya Kant.
When her time came, she made a fervent appeal to the Chief Justice; “Justice is crying behind closed doors”, she thundered, telling the court the Bengali people had not received justice.
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