New Delhi: The Congress on Thursday flayed the EC for its “parting gift” to PM Modi by shutting campaigning in West Bengal only after ensuring its order does not hit his pre-announced poll rallies at Mathurapur and Dum Dum, showing how subservient it has become to the ruling BJP.
Party spokesman Randeep Singh Surjewala said EC has been so partisan in favour of the ruling BJP the Congress will press for a new mechanism for selection of chief election commissioner and election commissioners not by the party in power but involving an independent body.
“Instead of punishing goons and hooligans of the BJP led by their president Amit Shah, EC is punishing Democracy, per se. It has created a fear psychosis by admitting its inability to hold a free and fair poll. Does the EC now take orders from BJP headquarters rather than from the mandate of the Constitution.
As a responsible party, we have never cast unwarranted aspersions on the actions of constitutional bodies, but we are deeply saddened to say EC has completely lost its Independence and abdicated its constitutional integrity,” he said.
