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ECI sends third notice to Kejriwal

ECI sends third notice to Kejriwal

India Blooms News Service | | 27 Jan 2015, 08:18 pm
New Delhi, Jan 27 (IBNS) The Election Commission of India on Tuesday issued the third notice to Aam Aadmi party (AAP) supremo Arvind Kejriwal and asked him to 'desist' the leader from making utterances on bribing of voters by political parties .

The Commission warned him that stern action will be taken against him   in
the event of any further violation.

"Now, therefore, in view of the above statement and undertaking it para 15 and aforesaid violations of the Model Code of Conduct by you, the Commission hereby directs you to desist from making these utterances in all forms of election campaign by you from today (27tt' Januaty, 2015) 07:00 PM onwards, since Commission considers it as violative of the provisions of the Model Code of Conduct and also violative of the provisions of section 171B read with section 17lF, of the Indian penal Code, 1860 also comrpt practice u/s 123(l) of the R.P. Act 1951. You are,  hereby, warned that the Commission shall be constrained to take stern action against you in the event of any further violation," the ECI said.

The Bharatiya Janata Party earlier in the day lodged a complaint with the the Election Commission against ArvindKejriwal for using BJP candidate Kiran Bedi's photographs on his party posters.

"We have lodged four complaints against Arvind Kejriwal alleging violation of model code of conduct. The EC has assured us that it will take action in the case," Delhi BJP President Satish Upadhyay told reporters.

The complaint said the AAP pasted posters on hundreds of auto-rickshaws with images of Arvind Kejriwal and BJP's chief ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi and branding them respectively 'honest' and 'opportunist.'

The EC had earlier sent a notice to Kejriwal on the basis of a complaint that he was 'abetting and promoting' electoral offence of bribery' by asking voters to accept whatever was being offered to them by the BJP and the Congress and vote for the AAP.

However, in his reply Kejriwal has denied that he had lured voters and violated the Model Code of Conduct.

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