New Delhi: Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra asserted that the BJP’s sturdy response to her feedback about empty envelopes led them to file a grievance in opposition to her. She additional emphasised that guarantees reminiscent of girls’s reservation, the OBC caste census, and the ERCP made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi are, in her opinion, devoid of substance and are primarily “empty envelopes.”
Priyanka Gandhi on Thursday, in a put up on her WhatsApp channel wrote, ” The BJP got really mad at something I said, and they took legal action against me. I mentioned seeing on TV that the Prime Minister visited Devnarayan Ji’s temple with an envelope, and when it was opened, there were only Rs 21 inside. I also think that the work they do shows that the promises, like women’s reservation, the OBC caste census, and ERCP, made by Modi Ji, are all empty because his promises are not fulfilled”
Her remarks got here a day after the BJP complained to the Election Commission on Wednesday accusing her of “invoking the personal religious devotion of Prime Minister Modi” to make “false claims” throughout her ballot marketing campaign in Rajasthan and urged it to take motion in opposition to her.
A BJP delegation, together with Union ministers Hardeep Singh Puri and Arjun Ram Meghwal and get together leaders Anil Baluni and Om Pathak, submitted a grievance to the EC to take applicable authorized motion in opposition to the Congress basic secretary.
The BJP in its submission to the ballot panel stated Priyanka Gandhi advised a public assembly in Dausa on October 20 that she noticed it on TV that when an envelope of donation made by the Prime Minister at a temple was opened, it carried solely Rs 21. She added that she noticed the information and shouldn’t be conscious if the declare is true or not, the BJP’s grievance learn.
She then went on to launch a political assault on the BJP saying that “envelopes” are proven to public by the get together however nothing is present in them after the elections. The BJP included a video of her remarks in its grievance.
Rajasthan is ready to carry meeting elections for 200 seats on November 25, with the vote depend scheduled for December 3. The BJP’s grievance to the Election Commission acknowledged, “Priyanka Gandhi’s statement has breached the fundamental principles of impartial elections by invoking the personal religious beliefs of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.”
The grievance additionally identified that there isn’t any proof to help her assertion. The BJP argued that her feedback contravened each the Indian Penal Code and the Representation of People Act.
The RP Act speaks in opposition to “the publication by a candidate or his agent or by any other person of any statement of fact which is false, and which he either believes to be false or does not believe to be true, in relation to the personal character or conduct of any candidate, or in relation to the candidature, or withdrawal, of any candidate, being a statement reasonably calculated to prejudice the prospects of that candidate’s election”, the BJP stated. It added that the IPC additionally considers making a false assertion in reference to an election an offence when the intent is to have an effect on the ballot’s outcome.
