Congress slams EC over PM’s “Vote Show” at Polling Booth
ONI Bureau: While large number voters thronging polling booths across 93 constituencies in Gujarat to cast their vote, Prime Minister Narendra Modi became the first sitting PM to vote from the state. However, while the PM grabbed all media attention, the Congress took on the Election Commission for allegedly giving him a long rope.
The PM while casting their vote in Sabarmati’s Ranip, not only walked on the road, waving at the crowd, but also refused to get into the vehicle and stood on the car’s side foot step. People gathered outside the polling booth, held BJP flags and chanted ‘Modi Modi’ while the PM stood on the queue to cast his vote.
The Congress called the PM’s ‘Vote Show’ as a ‘Road Show’ and wanted to know how the EC allowed violation of poll code although it did not waste time to slam Rahul Gandhi for his TV/Newspaper interviews (in Delhi) on the basis of complaint lodged by the BJP and even cracked the whip on the media houses.
“The Election Commission is getting subservient to whims of BJP and the entire scam on NPA’s. PM holds a road show & pliable agencies subvert the Constitution. Is the EC acting as PS to PM abdicating its Constitutional duties?,” asks Congress leader Randeep Surjewala.
“The EC is acting as a puppet of BJP and PM Modi. While Modi is using several platforms, including FICCI for his poll pitch, the EC remains silent and does not even dare to question him and other leaders. This is really shameful for Election Commission. Never before in India’s history, the Election Commission had been seen in such a bondage like situation,” said Surjewala.
The Election Commission has meanwhile clarified that it has not yet received any official complaint from the Congress and would take its decision once it gets the details.
Response of Senior Journalists to PM Modi’s ‘Vote Show’:
जब उधर वोटिंग की तैयारी और इधर भाषण लागातार होता है , तब कान में तेल डालकर सो जाते हैं . जब वोटिंग से पहले मैनिफेस्टो जारी होता है तो आँख बंद कर लेते हैं . जब वोटिंग के दौरान आचार संहिता का फलूदा बनता है तो खिड़की -दरवाज़े बंद लेते हैं,जैसे कुछ हुआ ही न हो.न देखेंगे , न पूछेंगे
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