BJP, Congress move Election Commission over poll code violations

The party alleged that Gandhi had in a speech in Mumbai accused BJP and RSS of trying to destroy the Constitution and also claimed that V-Cs of universities were being appointed for their RSS links. Gandhi had also said that projects, like an iPhone factory and a Boeing unit, that should have come to Maharashtra were being sent to other states like Gujarat, the party alleged.

The BJP said Gandhi had become a serial offender “in the absence of exemplary action”. “The Commission may finally have to take a view whether it would continue to be a mute spectator or as an empowered constitutional body step in to restore the rule of law and provide a level playing field to all the parties,” said the memorandum, signed by Union Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal and other party leaders.

A Congress delegation submitted eight representations to the EC, including one over “a communal and divisive advertisement published on the official ‘X’ handle of the BJP i.e., BJP4India”. “It depicts Rahul Gandhi taking away reservations from the SC, ST and OBC communities and giving them to members of a particular religious minority community; in furtherance of a false narrative that is a consistent part of BJP’s electoral campaigning,” the representation said.

Another mentioned an ad on BJP’s Facebook handle depicting opposition leaders as “corrupt and anti Adivasis”.