In reply to ECI, it is BJP's 'quota bias' vs Congress' 'malicious' complaints
Election Commission of India notice on the Congress complaints against Union home minister Amit Shah's campaign speeches during the Maharashtra and Jharkhand polls, the BJP has cited Jawaharlal Nehru's letters to chief ministers on reservations besides Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi-led governments sitting on Mandal Commission reports. It has argued that the BJP is «duty bound to set the record straight by calling the Opposition's bluff,» ET has learnt.
The Congress, which also earned an ECI notice for BJP complaints against Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi's speeches, has defended its leader, citing a series of news reports as the basis for his comments and termed BJP's complaints as «false, malicious and defamatory.»
ET gathers that the ECI is seized of both communications but is yet to take a final view on the matter. Faced with complaints from both BJP and Congress for alleged violation of the model code of conduct by top leaders of BJP and Congress, Amit Shah and Rahul Gandhi, respectively, the poll panel had sent notices to their party presidents — BJP's JP Nadda and Congress' Mallikarjun Kharge on November 16.
Both parties had sought extension of time and while the Congress responded by late November, BJP's reply came in earlier this month.
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