Complaining of booth rigging in West Bengal, Bihar and western Uttar Pradesh, BJP prime ministerial nominee Narendra Modi on Sunday alleged the election commission was not acting impartially and dared it to take action against him.
BJP's PM candidate Narendra Modi holds up his ink-marked finger and the party symbol as he poses for a photograph after casting his vote at a polling station in Ahmedabad. (AFP photo)
"Why are you not acting? What is your intention? If you feel wrong about what I am saying now, then you are free to lodge another case against me,†the Gujarat chief minister told an election rally in this West Bengal town.
"It is your responsibility to ensure impartial polls. I am making very serious allegations," he said accusing the election commission of having failed to take action.
He said poll violence and booth rigging took place in Bengal, Bihar and western UP. "I am putting serious allegations against you. You have failed to stop rigging and violence in these areas. False cases have been filed against our candidate Babul Supriyo.
“Election commission's work is to protect people. I request you to fulfil your responsibilities in the right way.â€
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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader’s combative remarks came barely four days after the Gujarat administration filed two FIRs against him on the orders of the election commission.
The poll watchdog’s ordered the filing of the FIRs after Modi delivered a politically charged speech and displayed his party's symbol in violation of the poll code soon after exercising his franchise in Gandhinagar.
On his fourth visit to Bengal in the campaign leg for the Lok Sabha polls, Modi also said that the poll watchdog had all the government machinery at its disposal and more powers than even the Prime Minister.
"Democracy doesn't work like this, I know that in the elections on (April) 30th, how much rigging took place. Will this game go on?" he asked.
Modi recalled he had said in Uttar Pradesh too that in some areas problems were going to happen. "But Election Commission could do nothing. Today I am saying it again that in Bengal, Bihar and western Uttar Pradesh the same thing is going to happen. Is it not the responsiblity of the Election Commission that elections should be peaceful, there should be no rigging, no violence?"
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