Lok Sabha Elections 2024: The Delhi High court docket on Monday dismissed a plea seeking route to the Election Commission of India (ECI) to disqualify Prime Minister Narendra Modi for allegedly seeking votes for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) within the identify of spiritual deities and locations of worship for ongoing Lok Sabha elections.
While dismissing the plea, the court docket stated the petition is completely misconceived and court docket cannot direct ECI to take a specific view on any criticism.
Petitioner claimed that in a speech delivered by PM Modi at Uttar Pradesh’s Pilibhit, he sought votes interesting to the voters to vote for his get together within the identify of Hindu deities and Hindu locations of worship in addition to Sikh deities and Sikh locations of worship.
Appearing for the ballot physique, Advocate Sidhant Kumar opposed the plea stating that it’s coping with such functions on a each day foundation and can take motion as per regulation. He has filed the illustration and we are going to course of it. The fee is a constitutional physique.
A bench of Justice Sachin Datta stated the petitioner presupposes that there was a violation of MCC. This is comletely unjustified. The plea being devoid of benefit is dismissed.
