The Congress on Wednesday filed complaints with the Election Commission against the Bharatiya Janata Party leaders Amit Shah and Himanta Biswa Sarma, alleging that they violated the Model Code of Conduct in their speeches ahead of the Assembly polls next month.
A delegation of senior Congress leaders met Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar and presented a total of eight complaints to him. Two of the complaints pertain to Shah and Sarma’s speeches in Chhattisgarh.
In his speech on October 16, Shah had referred to the killing of a man named Bhuneshwar Sahu during communal violence in April. “To appease and protect their vote-bank, this Bhupesh Baghel government killed Chhattisgarh’s son, Bhuneshwar Sahu,” Shah had said, according to The Hindu.
The BJP has fielded Sahu’s father Ishwar Sahu as a candidate in the Chhattisgarh election.
On October 16, Congress MP Jairam Ramesh had said that Shah’s claims were false and were aimed at inciting communal violence. He said that the state government had taken prompt action and arrested the accused.
In the complaint against Sarma, the Congress referred to the Assam chief minister’s comments at a rally in Chhattisgarh’s Kawardha district on October 18. It said that he had a “clear cut intention to incite sections of society against one another”.
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