Rahul Gandhi has affirmed that there is absolute financial and media domination by the BJP.
New Delhi:
Congressional Leader Rahul Gandhi criticized the Election Commission on Saturday with a two-word deletion from the electoral body on Twitter amid much controversy over officials transporting an electronic voting machine (EVM) in a car of a BJP candidate in Assam and a reduction in the duration of the campaign ban. into a senior BJP leader.
“Electoral Commission,” Gandhi tweeted in a direct attack on the electoral body that has since suspended four officials and ordered a station in Assam’s Ratabari to be called back after alleged video of the EVM being transported in a leader’s vehicle of the BJP circulated widely. on social media.
Electoral Commission “.
– Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) April 3, 2021
The tweet also comes on a day when the electoral body cut the 48-hour campaign ban of Assam’s minister and BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma in half for threatening to send the head of the Bodoland Popular Front to jail, Hagrama Mohilary. The BPF was an ally of the BJP, but is now fighting the election of Assam with Congress.
Sarma will be able to campaign on Sunday, the last day before the third and final phase of the assembly elections in Assam.
Video showing an EVM being transported in a car that belonged to the wife of Krishnendu Paul, a BJP candidate in Patharkandi, sparked violence in the Karimganj district, where the seat is located.
This is the only way the BJP can win Assam: by looting the EVMs. EVM capture, as there used to be cockpit capture. Everything under the nose of the Electoral Commission. Sad day for democracy. #EVM_theft_Assam# AssamAssemblyElection2021https://t.co/5dmlu67Uui
– Gaurav Gogoi (@GauravGogoiAsm) April 1, 2021
The tweet from Gandhi, who is also a deputy to the Wayanad Congress in Kerala, suggests the alleged inaction of the Election Commission that the Congress has asserted regarding this incident and also the leniency shown towards Sarma in lowering his campaign ban.
In another tweet in Hindi, the 50-year-old former head of Congress attacked the Electoral Commission saying: “The EC car has broken down, the intentions of the BJP are bad and the situation of democracy has worsened.”
In a conversation with Harvard University professor and former US Secretary of State Nicholas Burns, Gandhi also argued that a “total capture” of India’s institutional framework by the ruling party has changed the paradigm in which opposition parties operate after 2014 as institutions that are supposed to support a just political struggle, no longer do so.
He also affirmed that there is absolute financial and media dominance by the BJP.
Several congressional leaders, including Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, have criticized EVM’s video.
The party also criticized the electoral body in the Himanta Biswa Sarma incident saying: “History will not forgive the Electoral Commission or the BJP for this sin.”
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