Tribune News Service
New Delhi, May 3
The Election Commission on Friday gave clean chit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in two complaints filed by Opposition parties, which related to his Nanded speech in Maharashtra on April 6 in which he dubbed Congress as a “sinking Titanic” and his interview to a TV channel in Varanasi on April 25. These are fourth and fifth clean chit to him.
Similarly, BJP president Amit Shah too got clean chit from the poll watchdog on complaints by Opposition parties for his references to defence forces during a speech at Nadia in West Bengal on April 22 and also for his speech in Nagpur, Maharashtra, on April 9 in which he had said it is difficult to make out if “Wayanad is in India or in Pakistan”.
In its order on Modi, the poll panel said that after obtaining detailed reports of the Chief Electoral Officer, the Commission “examined in detail in accordance with the extant advisories, provisions of the Model Code of Conduct and after examination of complete transcript of speech of 8 pages” and is of “the considered view” that in matters “no such violation of the extant advisories/provisions is attracted”.
In case of Shah, too, after examining the reports of the CEOs concerned, the poll panel said, it is of “the considered view that no such violation of the extant advisories/MCC provisions are attracted”.
Meanwhile, in an another development the poll panel informed that Congress president Rahul Gandhi today sought time till May 7, 2019, to respond to a notice served by it to him on May 1 against BJP’s complaint regarding “his impugned statement made while addressing an election meeting on April 23, 2019 at Shahdol in Madhya Pradesh and asked him to reply within 48 hours.
Gandhi has been alleged to have said that the Prime Minister had brought in a new law for tribal communities, which had a line providing that the tribal people could be shot at.
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