Jharkhand: Congress moves EC against BJP’s campaign video, says it violates poll codes
The BJP in Jharkhand had ascribed ‘false allegations and statements to leaders of the JMM, Congress and the RJD’, Jairam Ramesh told the Election Commission.
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The Congress on Sunday filed a complaint with the Election Commission against the Facebook handle of Bharatiya Janata Party’s Jharkhand unit for publishing a video “in blatant violation of the Model Code of Conduct”.
The code is a set of guidelines issued by the Election Commission for candidates, political parties and governments to follow during an election. It sets guardrails for campaign events, speeches, election manifestos and other aspects of the polls.
Voting for the Jharkhand Assembly polls will be held in two phases on November 13 and November 20. The counting of votes will take place on November 23, alongside that of the Maharashtra elections.
In a letter to the Election Commission on Sunday, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh alleged that the BJP in Jharkhand had ascribed “false allegations and statements to leaders of the JMM [Jharkhand Mukti Morcha], Congress and the RJD [Rashtriya Janta Dal]” through an advertisement published on November 9.
The Congress, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha and Rashtriya Janata Dal are contesting the Assembly elections in the state as a coalition. The three parties are constituents of the INDIA bloc at the national level.
Ramesh states that the advertisement sought to portray the alliance leaders in a “negative and false light, with the sole intent of propagating false...
