The BJP has said the Election Commission must “reprimand, censure, and restrain” Rahul Gandhi from “handing out lies during campaigning” for next week’s Maharashtra election.
The ruling party called on the poll panel to act against the Congress MP for “gross violation” of the Model Code of Conduct, referring to a section of speech in Mumbai last week; in a written complaint to the EC Monday afternoon, the BJP said Mr Gandhi had “falsely accused other states of stealing and snatching alleged opportunities from the state of Maharashtra”.
The reference was to Mr Gandhi’s “totally unverified claims… that Apple’s iPhones and Boeing’s airplanes are being manufactured in other states at the expense of Maharashtra”.
The BJP also called on the poll panel to direct a police case be filed against Mr Gandhi and Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge. “We told them Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi spoke lies in Maharashtra… he said BJP wants to crush the Constitution,” Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal, who led the saffron party delegation that met top election officials, said.
