Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Apr 25: Former Minister and veteran Congress leader, Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz has said that Election Commission of India has not been acting fairly as it has failed to act in certain cases during on going elections.
In a press statement here today Soz said when Sunil Arora was appointed as Chief Election Commissioner of India; certain people had apprehended that it would not be possible for him to be steadfast on set norms of the Commission.
“ECI has shown a kind of partisan attitude in the discharge of its duty. When it decided to lodge an FIR against Pragya Thakur, the other day, I was disgusted to see that ECI had not shown its nerve to deal with Pragya on bail, under the law. The broader question is that the ECI had not even bated its eyes on PM Modi and Amit Shah, who have been promoting extremely sectarian narrative in utter disregard of the Constitution of India,” he said.
“Hasn’t PM Modi been bringing in Armed Forces in his continuous narrative around Pulwama, Balakote and the like? Haven’t the duo brought in Hindutva ideology during their election campaign in the fullest possible manner?” Soz remarked.
The Cong leader further said ECI has tried to practically show that PM Modi and Amit Shah are entities above law of the land. As for as alleged terror accused Pragya, the Commission’s FIR against her is not its adequate response to her open propagation of sectarian Hindutva, her disrespect to the Constitution of India by clear communal reference to Babri Mosque and derogatory and unlawful remarks against Himant Karkare. All this has not constituted any serious offence in the eyes of the ECI, Soz said.
“The vast majority of Indians feel that people like PM Modi, Amit Shah, Aditya Nath Yogi and Pragya Thakur and the like in BJP, have made the election 2019, the ugliest of all the elections so far,” Soz claimed.
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