Congress moves Election Commission to restrain BJP from using Red Fort replica

NEW DELHI: Congress today moved Election Commission to restrain BJP from using Red Fort replica in Narendra Modi's election rallies in Delhi.

The trigger was a newspaper report that BJP would do so as it wanted to convey that Modi would become the Prime Minister next year and deliver a speech from Red Fort.

Modi had earlier delivered a speech in Ambikapur in Chhattisgarh this year with a replica of Red Fort erected behind the stage.

"Red Fort is a national monument and government property which cannot be used by BJP for election campaign directly or indirectly," Secretary of AICC (Legal Department Cell) K C Mittal said in a formal complain to Chief Election Commissioner V S Sampath.

He asked Sampath to issue necessary orders to prohibit BJP from such use of Red Fort.

BJP believes that Modi's presence in the last leg of the campaign for Delhi polls could better its election prospects. Modi will be addressing a number of rallies in Delhi in next two days.