Bhubaneswar: A day after the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP) moved the Election Fee alleging that social gathering employees of Odisha’s ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) had been attempting to lure voters in subsequent week’s Dhamnagar meeting bypoll, the BJD additionally approached EC with a counter-complaint in opposition to BJP leaders who they accused of indulging in electoral malpractices in the course of the campaigning.
A delegation of the BJD comprising MPs Chandra Sekhar Sahoo, Niranjan Bishi, Muzibullah Khan, and Sasmit Patra on Thursday submitted a memorandum to the Election Fee workplace in New Delhi wherein they accused BJP leaders of wilfully and maliciously tarnishing and defaming the picture of Mission Shakti Girls Self Assist Group members.
“Faux and fictitious movies are being manufactured by Odisha BJP leaders and being circulated in social media stating that Mission Shakti (Girls Self Assist Group) members. The Odisha BJP shouldn’t be solely defaming them and tarnishing their picture but additionally doing a terrific disservice to the ladies of Odisha and the nation. Particularly when they’re rising socio-economically and being champions of girls’s empowerment. By indulging in faux and false allegations in opposition to the native administration, they’re attempting to create a worry psychosis within the native administration with the intent to mentally harass them from executing their jobs in a free and truthful method,” BJD alleged in its memorandum.
The BJD memorandum got here a day after Union schooling minister Dharmendra Pradhan and social gathering spokesperson Sambit Patra complained to EC in opposition to what they described as unfair means adopted by the ruling social gathering to entice voters and the inaction of the state’s chief electoral officer within the face of blatant ballot code violations.
“The CEO can also be the secretary of the panchayati raj division. He’s sitting silent over subject workers of Panchayati Raj, Rural Improvement and Girls and Little one Welfare departments overtly working for the ruling social gathering in Dhamnagar. Cash is being distributed by ladies’s self-help teams. A free and truthful election is the least anticipated from the CEO who as a substitute of defending the regulation has turned a violator by conveniently wanting the opposite approach when the BJD employees are blatantly violating all electoral norms,” Pradhan alleged on Wednesday.
On Thursday, the BJP additionally alleged that the Bhadrak district administration was harassing social gathering employees in Dhamnagar by misusing the provisions of the Legal Process Code. “Utilizing sections 107 and 110 of the Code Of Legal Process, 1973 underneath which magistrates can ask an individual to furnish safety over a doable breach of peace, greater than 900 BJP employees are being requested to provide an enterprise within the courts of native judicial Justice of the Peace. BJP employees are being threatened with false circumstances,” alleged Lekhashree Samantsinghar, Odisha basic secretary of BJP.
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