Congress Questions Election Commission For Issuing Notice To Nadda Instead Of Modi
New Delhi, April 26: The Congress today questioned the logic of the Election Commission of India issuing notice to the Bharatiya Janata Party president JP Nadda in response to a complaint against the Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Addressing a press conference at the AICC headquarters here today, Congress spokesperson & Chairman of Media & Publicity, Pawan Khera pointed out, the complaint was against Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his controversial speech and still the ECI issued notice to Nadda and not to the Prime Minister.
He observed that the ECI appeared to be too scared to issue notice to the Prime Minister. He said, that is why the Congress was saying that the democratic institutions were in danger.
Replying to a question that the ECI had issued a notice to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on a complaint against Rahul Gandhi, Khera said, this was done with the obvious purpose that questions should not be raised. Otherwise, he pointed out, questions would have been raised why notice was issued to Gandhi and not to Modi. He said Congress would have welcomed it if the notice had been issued to Rahul instead of Kharge.
Expressing confidence about the Congress performance, the party spokesperson claimed that the Congress manifesto was quite popular among the people and some guarantees in it, particularly about youth like “pheli naukri pakki”, filling of 30 lakh vacancies and waiving off educational loans was being appreciated across the country.
Referring to Prime Minister’s controversial statements, Khera said, while he (the PM) was busy raking up irrelevant issues “machhli-mangalsutra-musalmaan”, people were talking about jobs.
The Congress spokesperson accused Modi of lowering the dignity of the position of the Prime Minister by resorting to divisive and polarising speech and instigating one community against the other.
He said, Congress party was grateful to the Prime Minister for popularising the party (Congress) manifesto. He said, although the PM was telling lies only, people were reading the original manifesto and getting the true picture.
