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UP: Khan, Shah banned from holding rallies

| | Apr 12, 2014, at 04:27 am
New Delhi, Apr 11 (IBNS): In a significant development, the Election Commission (EC) has banned Samajwadi Party (SP) leader 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.

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 Tuesday.

Bharatiya Janata Party Uttar Pradesh in-charge Amit Shah had earlier urged people to take their revenge by voting for his party in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.

Addressing a rally at a riot-hit Jat village near Muzaffarnagar, Shah said, "If you want to take revenge, vote for the BJP."

"In today's time you can't take revenge with swords and arrows like it was done in the Mughat era. But today the people are constantly being denied justice ... they are not getting their rights. So, you press the right button (on the Electronic Voting Machine) and show people their right place," he said.

 

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