Ahmedabad: After casting his vote BJP’s PM candidate Narendrta Modi delivered a message to TV cameras encouraging people to vote. He spoke about the nation’s mood and criticised the Congress.
“Today Gujarat is voting. Other states are voting too. Elections are a festival of democracy. Everyone must join this festival of democracy and strengthen it.” Mr Modi said, and then added, “I can sense voters’ mood. This maa-bete ki sarkar to gayi...Congress has accepted defeat.”
The notice from the EC’s principal secretary, K. Ajaya Kumar, followed after a complaint registered by the Congress. It said that “from the substance, tone and tenor of the address made by Mr Modi and the statements made by him was intended and calculated to influence and affect the result of elections in the constituencies going to polls today.”
The crime branch has also registered an FIR against all the news channels and electronic media that telecast Mr Modi’s “press conference”.
