Srinagar: Prof. Saifuddin Soz President Pradesh Congress Committee has said: “It is really unfortunate that the Election Commission of India (ECI), despite its achievements in respect of electoral reforms of various kinds, has failed to check violations of Model Code of Conduct committed by Mr. Modi and his cohorts in various parts of India particularly in Uttar Pradesh.”
According to a statement issued to KNS, Soz added: “To cite just one example, it could be pointed out to ECI that it was clearly wrong on its part to allow Shri. Amit Shah to resume campaign in Uttar Pradesh on behalf of Shri. Modi, after his poisonous and dangerous hate speech in UP openly directed against Muslims. Allowing him to indulge in the same nefarious game of extreme communal polarization on the basis of just an affidavit was absolutely wrong.”
“A series of violations of Model Code Of Conduct by Shri. Modi, Shri. Amit Shah and others, including display of Ram Lalla at Faizabad on the occasion of Modi’s visit there and his potentially dangerous speech with communal overtones, occurred only because the Hate Mongers got conscious of the fact that ECI had not shown the will to check blatant malpractices.”
The PCC chief has said: “Some conscientious citizens of India have started fearing that fascism has already arrived at the threshold of democratic and secular India! The ECI also had not shown its nerve to go into the vital questions of quantification of Mr. Modi’s enormous funding for the unprecedented media hype for Mr. Modi and the enormous level of black money that got into the Modi’s campaign by way of Paid News. Perhaps the time has come when the Peoples Representation Act will need provision for the Supreme Court’s direct intervention, when the ECI goes wrong as visibly as during the course of the present General Election 2014.”