Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress on Monday complained to the Election Fee alleging that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who’s the BJP candidate from Varanasi, has violated the mannequin code of conduct through the use of central authorities funds for campaigning.
In a letter addressed to the chief election commissioner, TMC Rajya Sabha MP Derek O’Brien mentioned a message by the PM highlighting his authorities’s programmes reached the voters on March 16, after the mannequin code of conduct got here into power.
Modi has purportedly written the message within the type of a letter to the voters on March 15, the TMC chief claimed.
“By utilizing the workplace of the prime minister, the BJP has issued the aforesaid letter at the price of the general public exchequer beneath the guise of a message seemingly despatched by the Authorities of India. Such mass circulation is nothing however an enchantment to the voters in favour of the BJP and Mr Modi and thereby flouting the mandate of the Election Fee of India,” O’Brien mentioned within the criticism.
He urged the EC to make sure that acceptable instructions are issued to the BJP and its candidate Modi to withhold from future campaigns at the price of public exchequer, to withdraw the letter….”
O’Brien mentioned that the price of sending the prime minister’s letter to the voters also needs to be included within the accounts of the BJP and Modi towards the top “election expenditure.”
