A day after Diwali, the senior Congress leader and Former Home Minister P Chidambaram slam Election Commision for not announcing Gujarat poll schedule. He alleged that the government had pressurized the EC to “delay” the announcement of Gujarat assembly poll schedule.
The delay in announcing the dates for Gujarat by the poll panel has come in for sharp criticism from the Congress and Chidambaram clearly questions the autonomy of the EC. He attacked EC sarcastically, he asserted that EC has authorized PM to announce the date of Gujarat elections at his last rally.
As soon as dates of elections are announced, the model code of conduct comes into force and state governments cannot announce popular schemes that appear to sop for voters. The Congress argued that any delay in announcing poll dates gives the BJP government in Gujarat more elbow room to announce sops without violating the model code of conduct.
Former Election Commissioners have also argued that the decision goes against the spirit of holding simultaneous elections.
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