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The day her 24-hour campaigning ban took effect, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee sat on a dharna at the Gandhi statue in Kolkata, protesting what she and her party described as the Election Commission's unconstitutional decision to bar her from campaigning.
The Election Commission the same week also barred BJP's Rahul Sinha for 48 hours and issued a show-cause notice to Dilip Ghosh, per the same report. No direct, exact-worded quote from Banerjee herself (as opposed to the outlet's paraphrase 'unconstitutional') was found in the source opened.
Here the Commission's action comes first and the response is the Chief Minister's.
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