New Delhi: The Election Commission on Thursday gave a clean chit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying he did not violate the model code of conduct during his election speech in Rajasthan’s border town of Barmer where he invoked the armed forces and said that India’s nuclear button was not kept to be used for Diwali.
This is the third clean chit by the EC to the Prime Minister in connection with poll-related speeches.
Officials said the Commission examined the matter in detail and it was of the “considered view that in this matter no such violation of the extant advisories/provisions is attracted.”
The Election Commission, they said, examined the complete certified transcript of the speech of 10 pages sent by the returning officer of the Barmer parliamentary constituency.
