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Election Commission seeks report on Modi's roadshow

| @indiablooms | Dec 14, 2017, at 10:24 pm

New Delhi, Dec 14 (IBNS) : The Election Commission on Thursday sought a report from district collector on the alleged roadshow Prime Minister Narendra Modi held after casting his vote, leading to a heightened acrimony between the ruling BJP and opposition Congress.

According to reports, the EC said it will examine the matter after receiving the report.

The controversy arose after the PM cast his vote in Ahmedabad's Rapin, came out of the booth and flashed his inked finger at the waiting crowd that cheered him.

Modi also hit the streets in a car drawing huge applauding partisan people around- an event that Congress calls a "mini roadshow" held in contravention of the election code of conduct.

In protest, Congress supporters gathered in front of the EC office in the national capital demanding action against the PM, while a high-level  BJP delegation reached the poll panel's headquarters.

The delegation comprised  leaders like Ravi Shankar prasad, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Nirmala Sitharaman.

After the EC on Wednesday issued a notice to Congress' President-elect Rahul Gandhi for giving an interview to a television channel during the election, the Congress turned more incensed as the PM "got away" allegedly flouting the same rules.

While former Union Minister P Chidambaram alleged that the EC is "sleeping" on its job, other party leaders were more scathing.

"Will expose the ‘double standards’ of an Election Commission subservient to whims of BJP and the entire scam on NPA’s," AICC spokesman Randeep Singh Surjewala tweeted.

" PM holds a road show & pliable agencies subvert the Constitution. Is the EC acting as PS to PM abdicating its Constitutional duties?" he said.

The members of the Congress party who had staged a protest against the EC office, have been kept in a preventive detention.

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