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“Making baseless references to things and making false accusations on opponents is the speciality of the training of RSS and BJP,” Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said in a post on social media.
While the ECI’s role is being questioned, it is worth remembering how the body once disenfranchised Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray during the late 1980’s for six years on account of communal speech.
The prime minister’s comments on Sunday were a ‘direct attack on the Muslims of India’, the group told the poll panel.
Stating that it was a “trial of the EC” too, the Congress said the poll panel “risks tarnishing its legacy and abandoning its Constitutional duty by setting a precedent of helpless inaction that will go down in infamy”.