Congress and BJP fight complaints war

New Delhi: Both the Congress and BJP lodged complaints against each other before the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday, days before the polling in Jharkhand and Maharashtra assembly elections.

Congress presented a series of complaints made by the party over the past few days before the ECI and filed filed two new complaints today. The first was against a social media post on BJP X handle about Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. "It depicts Gandhi taking away reservations from the SC/ST and OBC communities and giving them to members of a particular religious minority community in furtherance of a false narrative that is a consistent part of BJP's electoral campaigning," read the complaint. In another complaint, the party raised an objection over the opinion poll conducted by a company for Jharkhand and Maharashtra elections which predicted a landslide victory for BJP in both states.

The BJP, on the other hand, complained to the ECI regarding Gandhi's remark of ' Constitution in danger'. A BJP delegation led by Union minister Arjun Ram Meghwal and general secretary Arun Singh met the ECI to complaint against Gandhi. "Congress is disappointed because they are seeing their defeat in Jharkhand and Maharashtra," Singh told ET. The Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha is frustrated with this and he is doing unnecessary drama that the Constitution of India is in danger...He is trying to raise conflicts between Maharashtra and Gujarat, he added.