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Orders issued by the Indian Election Commission (EC) granting a clear note to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah are not warned of violations of the Model Code of Conduct. The only dissenting opinion of one of the election commissioners, according to informed people who asked not to be named.
In doubling this discrepancy from the norm, an official familiar with the conduct of the ballot indicated that the dissent is supposed to be part of the final order and made public. The manager, expressing himself under the guise of anonymity, said that another digression from the norm is that the voting board, after receiving complaints against the Prime Minister and the Shah, has not issued any justification indicating his response.
According to a second official, Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa disagreed with the majority's point of view in five different complaints of model code violations against Modi and Shah. As the rules allow the order to be issued by majority, the Prime Minister and the Shah received favorable ratings in all cases. HT saw two of these orders and no dissenting voices were mentioned.
"In case of violation of the model code, the commission must register the complaint, the response of the person against whom the complaint is filed. rendered, and the final order, whether unanimous or divergent. It's always a detailed order, "said a former Chief Electoral Commissioner (CEC) under the guise of anonymity.
With respect to the issuance of notice of justification, the former CEC said: "Cases concerning the CMC [model code of conduct] violations must take into account the laws of natural justice; the accused must have the opportunity to file a response. The final order is based on the jury's inquiry and the accused's response; therefore, a notice of justification must be issued. "
CEC President, Sunil Arora, and Electoral Commissioner, Lavasa, did not answer questions from HT.
The first official said that the issue of dissent does not exist. had not been registered. "Held by the commission"
"The manager who expressed the dissent wrote to the commission to ask him why his point of view had not been "
One official had previously suggested that, since decisions on standard code of conduct cases were not quasi-judicial, the dissent was not not registered.
Modi has until now been dealt with in the six cases – for speeches delivered at Barmer, Varanasi and Patan., Nanded, Latur and Wardha; while Shah was allowed to hold speeches at Nagpur and Krishna Nagar
The Supreme Court gave jus that until May 6 to poll watchdog time to dispose of all complaints by listening to a petition, which had accused the ballot. body of inaction.
In response to the allegation of Congressional bias by the EC, Modi said Saturday: "These are all excuses with which they want to explain their impending defeat. They are like the drummer who blames the referee for being clean. They also remind me of the student, who fails in exams and attributes his failure to anything but his own lack of preparation. "
In the letter to Randeep Surjewala, Head of the Congressional Communication Department, last Monday, the EC stated that it had examined 11 pages of Prime Minister Modi's speech in Latur and found that he had no violation The letter does not say whether the order is unanimous or not
The polling station panel concluded last week that Prime Minister Modi's speech in Latur, Maharashtra, on April 9th , in which he appealed to the first voters to vote for them The Pulwama martyrs and the soldiers who led the Balakot air strike did not violate the model code. Twice political parties avoid to refer to images of soldiers or use them for electoral propaganda purposes.
On Saturday, the voting board erased another speech by the Prime Minister regarding his in Patan, Gujarat, on April 21st. , when he said that he had warned Pakistan of dire consequences if he did not dismiss the Abhinandan Varthaman pilot of the Indian Air Force. The Supreme Court ordered the electoral commission to resolve all cases of model code violations against the Prime Minister and the Shah by 6 May.
Last week, EC also authorized the Prime Minister to deliver his speech to Wardha, suggesting that Congressman Rahul Gandhi is fighting for a second seat in Wayanad, Kerala, where the "majority is in the majority", apparently because Muslims and Christians make up nearly half of the constituency electorate.
Gandhi, to whom the EC attributed a clean note for his speech in Jabalpur where he referred to Shah as "accused of murder", received a notice for his speech of April 23 in the Shahdol of Madhya Pradesh, where he said that Modi has made a new law in which there is a line that says that we can shoot the tribes, referring to the bill on Indian forests.
First publication:
May 05, 2019 23:47 PM IST
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