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Azam Khan slams EC for banning his rallies

| | Apr 17, 2014, at 12:12 am
New Delhi, Apr 16 (IBNS): After being banned from holding rallies, Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Azam Khan has slammed the Election Commission (EC) and said that the poll panel is being dictatorial by stopping him.

"The Election Commission has been dictatorial in banning me from making speeches. It has violated the principles of natural justice by even ignoring my response," Khan told CNN-IBN channel.

 
Creating a controversy, Khan had said it was Muslim soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the country in the Kargil War.
 
"The soldiers who brought victory in Kargil were not Hindu but Muslim soldiers. It was our Muslim brothers who conquered the peaks of Kargil mountains," Khan said addressing a rally  in Uttar Pradesh.
 
On being asked whether he regretted the remark, Khan said, "I have no regrets for any comment of mine. What should we do when (Narendra) Modi calls us 'kutte ka bacha'? Should we remain silent?"  
 
The Commission had earlier banned  Azam Khan and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s  general secretary Amit Shah from holding public rallies and road shows in the politically crucial Uttar Pradesh.
 
Taking note of the communally-charged campaign speeches made by both the leaders, the poll panel took the step.
 
The EC also directed the Uttar Pradesh government to file First Information Reports (FIRs) against Khan and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's aide Amit Shah.
 

 

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