Senior Congress leader and spokesman Randeep Singh Surjewala slammed the election commission and termed as “constitutional travesty” the EC's rejection of Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa's demand
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Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa said it was the Supreme Court’s strong observations over poll panel’s delayed reaction to hate speeches that prompted him to intervene and seek “transparent and time-bound” disposal of Model Code of Conduct complaints.
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Former Union minister P Chidambaram, on Sunday, said the Election Commission is a “silent spectator” to the “excesses” of the ruling BJP and to the utterances of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and has “largely failed” the people of India.
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After her remark on 26/11 martyr Hemant Karkare, Bharatiya Janata Party’s candidate from Bhopal Lok Sabha seat Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, in an interview with TV9, said she was among the people who demolished the Babri Masjid and she was “proud” of it.
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After the Election Commission suspended an IAS officer posted as general observer, for allegedly checking Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s helicopter in Odisha’s Sambalpur, the Aam Aadmi Party launched a scathing attack on Modi and asked if he was trying to “hide something”.
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After President Ram Nath Kovind cancelled the Lok Sabha election in Tamil Nadu’s Vellore constituency based on an Election Commission recommendation on the use of money power to influence voters, DMK president MK Stalin called it “murder of democracy”.
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Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel, while filing a complaint to election commission, alleged that Prime Minister Narenndra Modi violated the model code of conduct during his public meeting at Raipur’s Badola by making statements about Army and surgical strikes.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a scathing attack on West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and repeated his “speed-breaker Didi” barb, in an election rally in West Bengal’s Cooch Behar.
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Just a day after the EC, on the complaint to UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s “Modiji ki sena” remark, suggested the CM to be more careful in his campaign speeches, Congress spokesman Randeep Singh Surjewala questioned the poll body for letting off Adityanath with a light rap.
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