New Delhi: The opposition is making “ridiculous charges” against the Election Commission, Union minister Jitendra Singh said on Friday, rejecting allegations that the BJP is in any way influencing the poll panel into giving Prime Minister Narendra Modi a clean chit for his speeches.
In an interview to PTI, the minister also debunked the opposition’s allegations of horse-trading against Modi for saying 40 MLAs of Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress are in touch with him. “The BJP has no reason to prevent somebody for joining it if leaders in other political parties feel suffocated for different reasons,” he said. Singh said opposition parties like the Congress have no evidence to back their allegations.
In fact, they are the ones with a history of misusing Constitutional bodies like the Election Commission and other agencies like the CBI for political gains, Singh, who is minister of state in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), said. He said charges of influencing the Election Commission are being made without any basis.
“They have no evidence to say so. These are the people who can go to any ridiculous extent. They have even gone to the extent of saying that the Balakot air strike was fake. So the people of this country have no trust in what they are saying,” Singh said.
