The Congress Thursday lodged complaints with the EC towards PM Narendra Modi and Union Residence Minister Amit Shah for allegedly making “false” and “divisive” speeches in the course of the Jharkhand and Maharashtra Meeting polls.
Within the case of the PM, Congress alleged that he had made “false, malicious and slanderous statements” concentrating on the celebration and its allies throughout a speech in Nashik on November 8. Congress mentioned the PM levelled allegations former PMs late Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi and that Congress leaders had been against the SCs, STs and OBCs. “The tone and tenor of the whole speech is additional proof of the speaker’s intention to create and unfold spiritual and caste-based animosity,” the Congress mentioned.
Equally, the Congress complained towards Shah for alleging that Congress was towards SCs, STs and OBCs, and was selling terrorism, citing his speech in Dhanbad on November 12. “… Mr. Amit Shah has additionally accused the INC of planning to remove reservations from members of the ST, SC and OBC communities and granting them to members of a specific spiritual minority neighborhood,” the Congress mentioned.