With Voting for Karnataka Assembly election 2023 hours away, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP’s Karnataka unit reportedly violated the Model Code of Conduct (MCC).
While PM Modi may have violated MCC by putting up a campaign video seeking votes during the ‘silence period’, the BJP’s state unit twitter handle posted a religious chant and sought votes in the name of religion violating MCC.
According to the Election Commission of India (ECI), the 48-hour period before polling is known as “the silence period”, during which no advertisement, without certification from the election authorities, and campaign can be done.
Following PM Modi’s video appeal on Monday night, AICC President Mallikarjun Kharge too released a video seeking votes for Congress on Tuesday evening.
Former CECs told media that any campaign carried out during the silence period should be seen as violation of MCC.
PM Modi invokes Lord Hanuman, BJP follows suit While the silence period was in place, the BJP’s official Twitter account (@BJP4India) put up an eight-minute-25-second-long campaign video at 12.21 am on Tuesday of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was seeking votes for the party.
The video was also put up on the personal Twitter account of Narendra Modi at 8.52 AM on Tuesday.This video reportedly amounts to a violation of the model code of conduct.
The Karnataka Assembly polls for all 224 seats in the state are scheduled on Wednesday, 10 May.
