The Congress on Wednesday lodged complaints in opposition to Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma with the Election Commission, alleging that their remarks in the course of the Chhattisgarh meeting ballot marketing campaign violated the mannequin code of conduct.

A delegation of Congress leaders met the chief election commissioner and different election commissioners, and introduced to them eight totally different memorandums of ballot code violations in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Telangana.

The delegation comprised AICC basic secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh, get together chief Salman Khurshid, AICC state in-charge for Telangana Manikrao Thakre, Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) chief Revanth Reddy, former TPCC chief Uttam Kumar Reddy and CLP chief (Telangana meeting) Bhatti Vikramarka.

In its grievance in opposition to Shah, the Congress advised the EC that the house minister claimed in a speech in Chhattisgarh’s Rajnandgaon on October 16 that “…Bhupesh Baghel’s government, for appeasement politics and vote bank politics, lynched Chhattisgarh’s son Bhuneshwar Sahoo and got him killed…”

Shah additional mentioned that the BJP had pledged to convey Sahoo’s killers to justice and “in his honour, we are fielding his father Ishwar Sahoo as a candidate in the elections”, the grievance acknowledged.

The opposition get together alleged that these statements and claims are in blatant violation of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Representation of the People Act, 1951.

The Congress’ grievance in opposition to Assam Chief Minister Sarma pertained to a speech he delivered in Chhattisgarh’s Kawardha on October 18 whereas campaigning in opposition to Congress candidate Mohd Akbar.

In his speech, the Congress alleged, Sarma mentioned, “If one Akbar comes to some place, he calls 100 Akbars. So, send him off as soon as possible, otherwise the land of Mata Kaushalya will get defiled.”

The grievance acknowledged that Sarma subsequently levelled allegations in opposition to Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, saying, “Today, the tribals of Chhattisgarh, who are dear to us, are being encouraged to convert their religion on a daily basis. And when someone raises their voice against it, Bhupesh Baghel ji says ‘we are secular’. Is beating up Hindus your secularism? This country is a country of Hindus and will belong to Hindus. Do not teach us secularism, we do not need to learn secularism from you.”

Congress leaders claimed that these statements and claims spotlight a clear-cut intention to incite sections of society in opposition to each other.

In one other grievance, the Congress alleged the central authorities issued orders directing civil servants and Indian Army troopers to advertise achievements of the BJP dispensation.

“These acts of politicising the conduct of civil servants and Army soldiers violate the model code of conduct and the Central Civil Services (Conduct) Rules, 1964,” the get together mentioned.

The Congress additionally submitted a grievance in opposition to Govind Singh Rajput, the BJP candidate from Surkhi, Sagar district in Madhya Pradesh.

The get together sought his disqualification, alleging that he had publicly acknowledged that he would pay ₹25 lakh to incharges of cubicles the place the utmost variety of votes could be solid for the BJP.

The Congress additionally submitted a grievance in opposition to “unlawful” switch and posting of law enforcement officials in Telangana. It claimed these officers had been transferred earlier than the completion of two-and-a-half years of their tenure, as mandated by the EC.

It additionally complained in opposition to election duties being assigned to officers in Telangana who publicly assist a particular political get together.

“The Indian National Congress has consistently highlighted, exposed and documented electoral malpractices and brought them to the attention of the ECI for action and redressal.

“Through this course of, the INC has ensured the deletion of lakhs of bogus voters throughout states, ensured the registration of FIRs in opposition to political actors participating in electoral malpractices, ensured the switch of officers performing in violation of the legislation and likewise secured marketing campaign bans in opposition to repeated offenders who flout the legislation,” the Congress said in its memorandum to the poll panel.

Khurshid said as the electoral process begins, “the mudding of the waters by individuals from different political events have to be instantly curtailed and instantly put to an finish”.

The Union home minister, the chief minister of Assam and other leaders travelling to different states have taken up “divisive and hurtful” issues that would inevitably divert people’s attention from the issues that should be considered important for an election, and cause division and polarisation amongst the voters, he said.

“To have a degree taking part in subject and for individuals to have the ability to determine pretty and objectively… we hope genuinely that the Election Commission will be capable to do one thing about this,” the former union minister said.

Former TPCC chief Reddy said the Congress brought to the EC’s notice that elections “have in all probability turn out to be probably the most corrupt within the state of Telangana from the time this BRS get together has come to energy”.

“We have requested the Election Commission of India to intervene strongly to make sure free and truthful elections,” he mentioned.