The Apex Court on Thursday issued a notice to Election Commission to take appropriate action against opposition party workers for making sexist remarks against Trinamool Congress candidate Mahua Moitra during an election campaign in West Bengal.

A bench which comprised of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justice Deepak Gupta and Justice Sanjiv Khanna directed the poll panel to act against BJP leaders for passing "sexually coloured remarks" in their election speeches against Trinamool's candidate from the Krishna Nagar Lok Sabha constituency. 

The apex court also accepted the fact she raised in her plea that only 48 hours were left for the election campaign to end for the fourth phase and the poll body should act on her complaint as soon as possible.

SC asks the Election Commission of India (ECI) to pass appropriate directions on TMC MLA Mahua Moitra's petition accusing BJP candidate, Mahadev Sarkar, of allegedly making a sexist remark against her during the campaigning in West Bengal.