Parties misused media: Mamata

 The brazen personal attacks, distortion of facts, character assassination and vilification in never before manner has stunned the nation, she observed.

This state of affairs can be overcome only if we bring in electoral reforms and fulfill our long-pending demand of state funding for election expenditure, she suggested.

‘If the current trend continues, the future of our democracy will, no doubt, be at stake,’ said Banerjee. Banerjee has often publicly hit out at a section of the media and even accused a certain media house of ‘plotting to murder her’ in connivance with her rival parties.

Walking all the way from her Harish Chatterjee Street residence to the polling station at the Mitra Institution, Banerjee flashed a victory sign after exercising her franchise.