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Sangh Parivar flays EC decision not to hold Gujarat polls
New Delhi, Aug 16: The Sangh Parivar today charged the Election Commission with adopting `double standards` while deciding on the Gujarat polls and said its decision to consider holding elections only in November-December has put a `big question mark on its credibility.`
New Delhi, Aug 16: The Sangh Parivar today charged
the Election Commission with adopting "double standards" while
deciding on the Gujarat polls and said its decision to
consider holding elections only in November-December has put a
"big question mark on its credibility."
"The Election Commission is adopting double standards on Gujarat vis-a-vis Jammu and Kashmir," VHP spokesman Veereshwar Dwivedi told a news agency.
"While the Commission has declared dates for elections in Jammu and Kashmir where massacres like Kaluchak, Qasim Nagar and Pahalgam are a regular feature, it has chosen to defer the decision on Gujarat, which has returned to normalcy." Dwivedi said.
"By not holding the polls (in Gujarat) now, the EC has put a big question mark before its credibility," he said.
Asserting that the situation in Gujarat was conducive for assembly elections, RSS spokesman Ram Madhav said, "this decision is expected from the manner in which the chief election commissioner conducted himself during his visit to Gujarat."
He, however, said it was totally the commission's prerogative to decide on the timing of elections.
Sangh Parivar outfits have been accused of indulging in large-scale violence in the state following the Godhra incident. Senior VHP leader Praveen Togadiya had recently organised meetings of the party's cadres to campaign for Chief Minister Narendra Modi's victory in the polls.
Bureau Report
"The Election Commission is adopting double standards on Gujarat vis-a-vis Jammu and Kashmir," VHP spokesman Veereshwar Dwivedi told a news agency.
"While the Commission has declared dates for elections in Jammu and Kashmir where massacres like Kaluchak, Qasim Nagar and Pahalgam are a regular feature, it has chosen to defer the decision on Gujarat, which has returned to normalcy." Dwivedi said.
"By not holding the polls (in Gujarat) now, the EC has put a big question mark before its credibility," he said.
Asserting that the situation in Gujarat was conducive for assembly elections, RSS spokesman Ram Madhav said, "this decision is expected from the manner in which the chief election commissioner conducted himself during his visit to Gujarat."
He, however, said it was totally the commission's prerogative to decide on the timing of elections.
Sangh Parivar outfits have been accused of indulging in large-scale violence in the state following the Godhra incident. Senior VHP leader Praveen Togadiya had recently organised meetings of the party's cadres to campaign for Chief Minister Narendra Modi's victory in the polls.
Bureau Report