EC asks JP Nadda and Mallikarjun Kharge to comment on each other’s complaints following speeches by Rahul Gandhi and Amit Shah | India News – Times of India
The Commission has asked the parties to send their replies by Monday, November 18 at 1 p.m. ECI also recalled their earlier advice to the BJP and Congress dated May 22, 2024, during the Lok Sabha elections, to keep star campaigners and leaders in check so that public decorum is not ignored.
BJP files complaint over Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Constitution’ remark, calling his speech full of falsehoods and lies
In a letter submitted to the ECI, the BJP filed a complaint against Rahul Gandhi’s claim that the saffron party wanted to ‘destroy the Constitution’.
The saffron party quoted Gandhi’s alleged November 6 speech from a rally in Maharashtra in which he accused the BJP and RSS of trying to destroy the Constitution.
“If you take out the list of Vice Chancellors of the Indian Universities, you will not find any merit. There is only one criterion for appointment: RSS membership. If you want to become a Vice Chancellor, take up RSS membership Science, on Geography, on history… even if you don’t know anything, it doesn’t matter if you are from the RSS And this is happening not just in one institution, but in all institutions of the country,” Rahul said, according to BJP .
According to the BJP complaint, Rahul Gandhi also alleged that Apple iPhones and Boeing aircraft were being manufactured in other states at the expense of Maharashtra.
The BJP also alleged that the Congress leader is inciting the youth of Maharashtra, which is “immensely dangerous to the unity and integrity of the nation”.
“As only expected and in line with his typical pattern of campaigning and general conduct, Shri Rahul Gandhi’s speech was full of untruths and lies, with the intention of creating discontent, enmity and ill will among the states of the Union of India” , the BJP wrote. .
‘False, divisive, malicious and defamatory statements’: Congress files complaint against BJP’s Amit Shah
In a letter, the Congress recalled Union Minister Amit Shah’s November 12 speech at an election rally in Dhanbad, Jharkhand, and said he made a “heap of false, divisive, malicious and defamatory statements about Congress and its allies.”
According to the complaint, Shah alleged that the INC and its allies; (a) against Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST) and other Backward Classes (OBCs); (b) promoting terrorism in the country.
In what has become a common narrative in the BJP’s campaign in Jharkhand, Amit Shah has also accused the INC of planning to take away reservations from members of the ST, SC and OBC communities and granting them represent members of a particular religious minority community. ‘ the letter read.
The Congress also said that the Shah was appointed with the sole intention of inciting voters on the grounds of religion and caste; to consolidate votes and influence them to vote for the BJP by fueling communal insecurity.
