BJP delegation meets Election Commission over PM roadshow controversy
New Delhi, Dec 14 (IBNS): Countering the Congress' protest against PM Modi's alleged roadshow on the Gujarat polling day, a delegation of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) met the Election Commission, media reports said.
The delegation team of the BJP, that reached the EC, was comprised of leaders like Ravi Shankar prasad, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Nirmala Sitharaman.
None of the leader broke silence on the controversy.
The Congress slammed the Election Commission for allowing Prime Minister Narendra Modi to make a spectacle of his voting by showing off his inked finger to the public from his car and a huge partisan and applauding crowd making the event look like a roadshow.
"Will expose the ‘double standards’ of an Election Commission subservient to whims of BJP and the entire scam on NPA’s," AICC spokesman Randeep Singh Surjewala tweeted.
" PM holds a road show & pliable agencies subvert the Constitution. Is the EC acting as PS to PM abdicating its Constitutional duties?" he said.
The members of the Congress party who had staged a protest against the EC office, have been kept in a preventive detention.
Modi cast his vote in his home state Gujarat for the assembly elections. He reached the polling booth at Ranip amid huge appaluase from a flood of people standing in line waiting for Modi to arrive.
After Modi cast his vote and came out of the booth, , he showed his inked finger to cameras and people alike and his supporters roared in appreciation..
After casting his vote Modi hit the streets in car drawing huge cheering crowds.
The Congress outburst comes apparently in retaliation to the EC allowing an FIR to be filed against its President Rahul Gandhi for claiming in the midst of election that the party will win hands down.
Objecting to it, the BJP moved the EC, complaining that Gandhi's utterances were in contravention of the model code of conduct.
Reacting strongly, the Congress questioned whether the EC was maintaining a double standard as it remained silent to similar remarks made earlier by BJP stalwarts, including PM Modi and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
Voting for the second phase of state Assembly elelction is now underway in 93 constituencies in the North, West and Central parts of Gujarat.
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