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EC wakes up from slumber
Updated On: 23 May, 2024 07:30 AM IST | New Delhi | Agencies
After five phases of poll, EC tells BJP and Congress to stop using caste, religion, and community in campaigns, demanding decorum and unity
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Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar With Election Commissioners
The Election Commission on Wednesday asked the BJP and Congress to desist from campaigning along caste, community, language, and religious lines, asserting that India’ socio-cultural milieu cannot be made a casualty to elections.
Nearly a month after it issued notice to BJP president J P Nadda on opposition charge that Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave a divisive speech in Rajasthan’s Banswara, the poll watchdog rejected his defence and asked him and his party’s star campaigners to desist from campaigning on religious and communal lines.
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