BJP moves Election Commission against Rahul Gandhi's Narendra Modi comment

NEW DELHI: The BJP has approached the Election Commission ( EC) seeking action against Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi for his “highly provocative” statement that 22,000 people will be killed in the country if Narendra Modi becomes prime minister.

“We brought to the Election Commission’s notice the statement of Rahul Gandhi yesterday [Friday] in Solan [Himachal Pradesh] that if Modi becomes prime minister there would be massacre of 22,000 people. This is a highly provocative statement by the Congress vice president,” BJP leader Ananth Kumar said.

Kumar, who led a delgation to Chief Election Commissioner VS Sampath, said the alleged remark was “uncalled for and breach of model code of conduct”.

The BJP “urged the CEC to take serious note of it and restrain Rahul Gandhi from giving such statements,” he said, adding that the “CEC assured us that appropriate action will be taken after looking into it.”