The Election Commission on Wednesday issued a notice to Congress president Rahul Gandhi for violating Model Code of Conduct by allegedly claiming that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has come up with a new law that allows tribals to be shot.
“Narendra Modi has made a new law that allows police to shoot at tribals. The law says that tribals can be attacked. They take away your lands, they take away their forests, they take away your water, and then they say that tribals can be shot at,” the notice quoted Gandhi as saying at a rally in Shahdol (Madhya Pradesh) on April 23.
Election Commission issues a notice to Congress President Rahul Gandhi & seeks a reply within 48 hours, for violating model code of conduct by saying “Narendra Modi has made a new law in which there is a line that says tribals can be shot at”, at a rally in Shahdol,Madhya Pradesh pic.twitter.com/uY5xD5CMif
— ANI (@ANI) May 1, 2019
The poll watchdog has given Gandhi 48 hours to respond to the notice. The Congress president is yet to comment on the matter.
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Apart from this, on Tuesday, the Union home ministry had issued a separate notice to Gandhi on his citizenship status after Rajya Sabha parliamentarian Subramanian Swamy filed a complaint.
According to the notice, Gandhi had declared his nationality as British in the annual returns of a company registered at Winchester, Hamshire, in the United Kingdom.