Election Commission biased, acts only on complaints of BJP, says Atishi after meeting to discuss campaign song

“The country’s election commission has not remained neutral and unbiased…We have been requesting the Election Commission for its time, and today, after almost a month, we got an appointment. When the BJP files any complaint, it issues notice to the AAP and other opposition parties immediately,” said Atishi while speaking to reporters outside the EC office.

She said that the AAP has been raising objections against the BJP’s content for about a month but the election commission did not take any action.

“But it issues notice and raises objection when the AAP launches its campaign song…The election commission did not raise objection when ED-CBI arrests CM Arvind Kejriwal just ahead of the polls but they raise objection when we make a song about his arrest…,” said Atishi, adding the AAP wishes the EC was neutral and bipartisan.

BJP had recently filed a complaint with the EC against the AAP’s campaign song.

“The election commissioner today is a successor of TN Seshan ji…we hope the elections are held the way he conducted them – free and fair… We are concerned that if the election commission today does not conduct free and fair elections, the country would move toward dictatorship,” said Atishi who was part of an AAP delegation comprising senior leaders Saurabh Bharadwaj, Pankaj Gupta and Dilip Pandey that visited the EC office.

Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Virendra Sachdeva said, “The problem with AAP leaders is that they want all constitutional bodies to work as per their anarchic dictates or be prepared to face their allegation of being biased.”