A delegation of leaders from the Opposition INDIA bloc on Friday met the Election Fee to register their protest in opposition to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest and the freezing of the Congress’ financial institution accounts.
The delegation demanded that the ballot panel intervene to cease the “concentrating on of Opposition leaders” by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Occasion by means of the “misuse” of central investigative companies, ANI reported. They alleged that the BJP was resorting to ”unrelenting, blatant and unlawful deployment of central companies” in a bid to stifle the Opposition.
Congress leaders KC Venugopal and Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Nationalist Congress Occasion (Sharadchandra Pawar) chief Jitendra Awhad, Communist Occasion of India (Marxist) chief Sitaram Yechury and Trinamool Congress MP Derek O’Brien have been amongst those that met the Election Fee.
Kejriwal was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on Thursday within the Delhi liquor coverage case. He was the primary sitting chief minister to have been arrested within the nation.
Earlier on the identical day, the Congress stated that the Earnings Tax division had frozen all its financial institution accounts forward of the Lok Sabha elections. The occasion stated that due to this, it’s unable to place out ads and its leaders are unable to journey from one a part of the nation to the opposite.
Singhvi, after assembly Election Fee officers on Friday, stated that the priority of the Opposition leaders was concerning the Structure’s primary construction, not about any particular person or political occasion.
“When a degree taking part in subject is required for an election and you don’t let the sphere be leveled by misusing companies, it impacts free and honest elections and finally democracy,” he stated.
The Opposition leaders additionally expressed concern concerning the arrests of former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren and Bharat Rashtra Samithi chief Okay Kavitha, and the Central Bureau of Investigation registering a primary data in opposition to Trinamool Congress Mahua Moitra, India Immediately reported.
“..There emerges a transparent, deliberate and sinister sample, the place the ruling regime is abusing its energy, and utterly destroying any semblance of a degree taking part in subject for different political events contesting the Lok Sabha elections,” the INDIA bloc leaders stated in a memorandum to the Election Fee.