Congress slams EC for allowing Modi to hold a virtual roadshow when polling in Gujarat is on
New Delhi, Dec 14 (IBNS) : As the high voltage Gujarat election was underway, the Congress on Thursday 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.
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.
According to reports, 11.71 percent votes were cast till 10 am.
Voter turnout for the first phase of the Gujarat elections for 89 seats, held on 9 December, stood at 66.75 percent.
The high-voltage campaigning in the state ended on 12 December. The results will be declared on 18 December.
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