The Hindu : Case against Modi for poll code violation

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Tuesday, Dec 03, 2002

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Case against Modi for poll code violation

By Manas Dasgupta

AHMEDABAD Dec. 2. The Gandhinagar police have registered a case against the Chief Minister, Narendra Modi, and the BJP for violation of election rules by using the public address system beyond 10 p.m.

Mr. Modi's rath yatra had entered Gandhinagar on Saturday night after 10 p.m. and police on an application from the BJP had extended permission for holding the meeting without the public address system. But the public address system was on more than 40 minutes beyond the deadline.

However, the BJP State unit treasurer, Surendra Patel, charged the Election Commission with biased against his party. The commission was deliberately sending to the State the observers known for their bias against the BJP, he alleged.

In another development, the anti-BJP sadhus and sants have decided to join the fray against the Vishwa Hindu Parishad's campaign with a BJP slant. The Mahagujarat Sant Samiti, which claims to have a membership of more than 1,200 sadhus and sants, said it would hold "sant sabhas'' in different parts of the State, as a counter-measure to the VHP's "dharma sabhas'', and inform the people about the "misleading'' statements of BJP leaders. The Samiti chairman, Chhote Morari Bapu, said that for the last 20 years the BJP had been misleading the people in the name of the Ram temple but it was never interested in building the temple. He said his samiti was also with the VHP as the far as the Ram temple was concerned, but it could not support the BJP's political designs.

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