The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Wednesday alleged that Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar on Wednesday behaved in an “unacceptable” manner during a meeting with its delegation, with party leaders claiming he told them to “get lost” within minutes of the interaction.The alleged controversy erupted after a four-member TMC delegation, comprising Rajya Sabha MPs Derek O’Brien, Sagarika Ghose, Menaka Guruswamy and Saket Gokhale, met the poll panel to raise concerns over the alleged deletion of more than 80 lakh voters in West Bengal.Speaking to mediapersons after the meeting, Derek O’Brien claimed that “within seven minutes, the CEC abruptly asked the delegation to leave, despite the party being the second-largest Opposition group in Parliament”.However, sources within the Election Commission (EC) have countered the TMC’s version of events. According to the them, it was O’Brien who had raised his voice, reportedly shouting at the CEC and demanding that the official remain silent. EC sources claimed that the CEC “requested O’Brien to maintain decorum of the room”, labelling the alleged shouting as “indecent behaviour”.Will move court again to resist deletions: DidiKolkata: “At times, I feel like starting practising law again,” West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said on Wednesday, targeting the BJP and the poll panel over large-scale name deletions from voter rolls under the SIR, while asserting the TMC would move court over the issue. “You will not be able to defeat the TMC by deleting names,” she said.The meeting was followed by a terse statement from the EC, saying it gave a “straight-talk” to the TMC delegation that “this time, the elections in West Bengal would surely be: fear-free, violence-free, intimidation-free, inducement-free”.O’Brien said the delegation presented a list of six election officers in West Bengal with proven ties to the BJP. According to O’Brien, photographic evidence was also provided to substantiate the allegations. He added that the TMC had demanded the immediate transfer of these officers, highlighting one instance where the Chief Electoral Officer was allegedly seen interacting with BJP workers in Nandigram.“It took us just 2-3 minutes to present these examples and the memorandum,” O’Brien said. “But when we questioned the CEC about how the appointment of these tainted officers could ensure free and fair elections, his response was, ‘get lost.’”O’Brien further claimed that the CEC refused to allow any other officials in the room to speak during the meeting, a practice the TMC says has been a pattern in previous meetings with the commission. “We’ve attended 8–9 such meetings where no one but the CEC speaks,” O’Brien added, accusing the EC of failing to engage in a proper dialogue.