Lok Sabha Elections 2024: The Election Fee right this moment took an unprecedented step because it warned the 2 largest events – the Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) and the Congress – asking the events to take care of ballot decorum amid the continued Lok Sabha Election marketing campaign. The ballot physique requested each events to desist from campaigning alongside caste, group, language, and spiritual strains. Nevertheless, the Election Fee’s stern warning got here after 5 phases of polling have been full and solely 114 seats have been left to go for voting in phases 6 and seven.
In a uncommon warning, the EC mentioned that India’s socio-cultural milieu can’t be made a casualty of elections and each events needs to be conscious of it. The Election Fee has warned each the Congress and the BJP leaders whereas rejecting their defences in response to the EC notices despatched to them.
EC’s Warning To BJP
The ballot physique additionally rejected the BJP’s defence in response to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s alleged divisive speech made practically a month in the past in Rajasthan’s Banswara. The Congress had moved the ED in opposition to the PM’s speech. The ballot watchdog requested the BJP and its leaders to desist from campaigning on spiritual and communal strains. The ballot physique warned the BJP in opposition to marketing campaign speeches that will divide society.
Ballot Physique’s Message To Congress
Because the Election Fee had earlier issued an analogous discover to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, the Congress had replied to the ballot physique’s discover on the complaints of the BJP. The EC rejected Kharge’s defence of Rahul Gandhi’s speech and requested Congress to not politicise defence forces and make doubtlessly divisive statements relating to the socio-economic composition of the armed forces.
The Election Fee additionally requested the Congress to make sure that its star campaigners and candidates don’t make statements which give misunderstanding that the Structure could also be abolished or bought. The EC requested the presidents of the 2 nationwide events to difficulty formal notes to their star campaigners to right their discourse, train care and keep decorum.
With the Lok Sabha ballot campaignin coming into the second part on April 20, the BJP and the Congress leaders made a number of ballot speeches on spiritual and caste strains, which drew the ballot physique’s consideration.
