The Congress Party complained to the Election Commission about the objectionable derogative remarks of BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi in his speeches on the Congress party and its leaders.
The Secretary of the Legal and Human Rights Department of All India Congress Committee A.K.Mittal filed the complaint on the speeches of Modi in his election rallies at Bemetara, Raipur and Durg.
Modi’s questioning in the public meeting at Bemetara, calling Rahul Gandhi as Shehzada, whether his complaint of money paid has come from his maternal uncle’s place, calling the party ‘bahurupia’ at Durg and calling Rahul Gandhi as confused are some of the reference made in the complaint.
A.K.Mittal in his complaint to EC also gave reference of the clause 2 of para 1 of “General Conduct” of the model code of conduct that prohibits political parties and candidates from criticizing on private aspects of other leaders or other parties. They also should not criticize on unverified allegations. Mittal says that Modi has been making derogatory remarks disregarding the model code of conduct.
The complaint says that as Modi and other leaders like the opposition leader of Loksabha Sushma Swaraj are repeatedly violating the election code, the recognition of Bharatiya Janata Party as a National Political Party may be withdrawn.
The outcome of the complaint may throw light on the frequent comments of the political leaders of the State on each other calling them foolish, out of mind, crazy and other such remarks. They call other parties colliding for political mileage, staging dramas and many other remarks with a criticism that the parties will be gutted, people will throw them out etc.
Political leaders are using witty remarks using humorous words and proverbs from regional languages to allure the gathered masses. In fact the object of the political rallies are to educate the public about what the party wants to do and what it can do but not to show the defects of others to prove that the speakers are better than others in comparison. In the frenzy when the public cheers and applauds, leaders sometimes forget the decency and use offensive language.
These habits carry during the election campaigns too. If one takes it serious like Congress party doing now, the complaints will run in to number of pages to make a book of good volume in the State of AP. The present complaint of the Congress party for the derogative comments and demanding the opposition party BJP responsible to be derecognized is an interesting matter to watch how Election Commission responds to it.
The reaction of EC may become guidelines to all the leaders and parties to observe in the elections in 2014.
-SriJa
