Election Fee asks AAP to change marketing campaign tune

The Election Fee on Saturday requested the Aam Aadmi Celebration to change the content material of its Lok Sabha election marketing campaign tune. The ballot physique additionally ordered re-elections at a polling station in Karnataka’s Hannur. The Congress, in the meantime, harped on a video of Acharya Pramod Krishnam to say that the Bharatiya Janata Celebration would change the Structure and scrap caste-based reservation if voted again to energy.

Right here’s a have a look at right this moment’s high developments:

• The Election Fee informed the Aam Aadmi Celebration on Saturday that the phrase “jail ke jawaab me hum vote denge” (we are going to give votes in response to ministers being thrown into jail) with the visuals of an “aggressive mob holding the photograph of Arvind Kejriwal displaying him behind bars, casts aspersions on the Judiciary”, reported ANI. The ballot physique has requested the ruling celebration in Delhi to resubmit the marketing campaign tune for certification after making the required modifications. The discover got here after a grievance filed by the Bharatiya Janata Celebration, reported NDTV.

• Talking at a press convention on Sunday, Aam Aadmi Celebration chief Atishi claimed that this was the primary time the Election Fee had imposed a ban on a celebration’s marketing campaign tune. “The tune doesn’t point out the BJP and doesn’t violate the Mannequin Code of Conduct,” she stated. “It consists of factual movies and incidents.” The Delhi minister additionally alleged that the ballot physique had not acted on the violations dedicated by the BJP. “If the BJP does dictatorship, it’s proper,” she stated. “But when somebody talks about it, that’s incorrect. This reveals that democracy is at risk.”

• The Congress claimed that the statements of BJP leaders and people near them present that “their objective is to vary the Structure and destroy democracy”. “They need to snatch the reservations for Dalits, backwards, tribals to finish their participation in working the nation,” celebration chief Rahul Gandhi stated in a put up on X after a video of Acharya Pramod Krishnam calling to finish caste-based reservations began doing rounds on social media. Krishnam, who was expelled from Congress for six years in February, is campaigning for the BJP. He had additionally hosted Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the basis stone laying ceremony of the Kalki Dham Temple in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal district.

• After the Congress’ remarks, Krishnam informed ANI that the video being circulated is of a speech he made a yr in the past when he was nonetheless related to the celebration. “This speech of mine is one yr outdated made on September 24, 2023, once I was with Congress and right this moment I’m with Prime Minister Modi,” Krishnam informed the information company. “I’m in opposition to casteism and untouchability…The propaganda and conspiracy Congress is doing won’t profit them.”

• The Election Fee stated on Saturday that re-polling shall be held at a polling station in Hannun, falling below the Chamarajanagar Parliamentary Constituency, on April 29. The Constituency went to polls within the second part on Friday. Nevertheless, Digital Voting Machines had been destroyed at polling station quantity 146 below the Hanur Meeting Constituency, reported The New Indian Specific.

• Arvinder Singh Pretty, who resigned from his put up because the Delhi Congress chief on Sunday, stated that he won’t be part of any celebration amid speculations of crossover to the BJP. He additionally clarified that he has not resigned from the first membership of the Congress, reported NDTV. Pretty stated he stepped down from his put up to protest in opposition to the alliance with the Aam Aadmi Celebration.

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