West Bengal election: CM Banerjee to sit on dharna after EC's 24-hour campaign ban

After the West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee was banned from campaigning for 24 hours by the election commission on Monday, she said she will sit on a dharna at Gandhi Murti in Kolkata to protest against the same.

The EC said that she had made "highly insinuating and provocative remarks laden with a serious potential of the breakdown of law and order thereby adversely affecting the election process."

The ban will be effective till 8 pm on Tuesday.