EC's notice for K'ntka Congress over ads targeting BJP
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New Delhi: After the Karnataka Congress published "corruption rate card" advertisements in newspapers targeting BJP, the Election Commission issued notice to the party. The commission sought empirical evidence over the allegations by Sunday evening, PTI reported.
EC made the move on Saturday after a complaint filed by the BJP.
As the Assembly elections are due for the state on May 10, Congress published some advertisements and posters listing the current BJP government's corruption in the state from 2019 to 2023. It called the BJP government a "trouble engine".
"It is a fair assumption that INC possesses the material/empirical/verifiable evidence based on which these specific/explicit 'facts' have been published, an action which can fairly be assessed to embed knowledge, motive and intent to do so by the author," the EC notice read.
The commission demanded the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president to "convey the empirical evidence of the same, for example, the evidence for rates for kinds of appointments & transfers, kinds of jobs and kinds of commission mentioned in the advertisement given by you along with if any explanation by 19.00 hrs on 7th May 2023 and also put that in the public domain," the notice read.