Election Commission of India Selective Silence on BJP atrocities ! Where is Model Code of Conduct ?

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'Laapataa Gents', 'Ordering a Spine'

 

Anyone found asking votes in the name Caste, Religion, Army, etc. apart from PM Modi, will be barred from elections.

Our job is to monitor elections & violations of any leader belonging to any party, but when it comes to PM Modi & BJP, they feel like family.

It should be noted that: “We believe in free & fair elections & we will take necessary action in terms of the Election MCC violation, only if the leader is from opposition.”

These are posts on X from an account with an evocative handle, ‘@ECISLEEPS’. It is an obvious play on the Election Commission’s X handle, @ECISVEEP. The posts, which have tens of thousands of likes, strike a chord in an atmosphere where the EC has been openly shirking its duties as a poll body in favour of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

And it’s not just the one parody account. The EC ignoring communal hate speeches by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other BJP leaders day after day, asking X to take down a communal video posted by BJP Karnataka only after polling in the state was almost over, allowing Modi to almost lead a roadshow while going to vote and only penalising opposition parties for model code of conduct violations is not lost on online commentators. They have reacted in a universal language – memes.

As always, Bollywood is of perpetual help.

 

 

 Cartoonist Satish Acharya too has pitched in noting the EC’s remarkable timing in asking X to take down the communal video posted by BJP Karnataka just as polls were ending in the state. The EC has yet not penalised BJP.

 

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