‘Daro mat’, tweets Rahul after BJP moves Election Commission against him

New Delhi, January 17

Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday took a jibe at the BJP for approaching the Election Commission to demand freezing the Congress’s poll symbol by alleging that he had violated the model code of conduct by linking his party symbol ‘hand’ with religious figures during a speech.

“Dear BJP, daro mat (don’t be scared),” he wrote on the micro-blogging site Twitter.

The tweet comes hours after a BJP delegation comprising Union ministers Prakash Javadekar and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi lodged a complaint with the Election Commission against Gandhi and sought freezing of the poll symbol.

“The grand old party’s grand new leader has tried to give a communal colour to the elections by his statement in which he co-related the Congress’s ‘hand’ with various religious figures. This is a clear-cut case of corrupt practice. There should be action against both the Congress and its leader,” Naqvi told reporters after filing a complaint with the Election Commission.

At Congress’s Jan Vedna Sammelan earlier this month, Gandhi had made comments co-relating his party’s poll symbol ‘hand’ with gods, violating the provisions of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, model code of conduct and the guidelines issued by the Supreme Court, the BJP alleged in its complaint. PTI