New Delhi: Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala on Thursday criticised BJP candidate Pragya Thakur’s remarks in which she described Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse as “a patriot”. “BJP leaders are describing the murderer of father of the nation as a true nationalist and declaring those who sacrificed their lives for the nation like Hemant Karkare as anti-nationals,” he said.
Campaigning in nine West Bengal seats will end at 10 pm tonight after the Election Commission (EC) cut short campaigning for the last round of voting in the state. The EC’s decision has been met with strong criticism from both the Congress and TMC that have called the move “unfair, unethical and politically biased.”
The move forced Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to reschedule her rallies which will now take place today in Mathurapur, Diamond Harbour, Behala and Kolkata. PM Modi will hold two rallies in the state – in Dum dum and Laxmikantpur.
Banerjee on Wednesday alleged that the EC gave Prime Minister Narendra Modi time to finish his two rallies before implementing the campaign ban that kicks off tonight. Congress, too, called the decision a “shameful fall for a once-independent constitutional body”.
The sharp reactions came after the poll body took unprecedented steps by invoking Article 324 of the Constitution to curtail the campaign period and transferred key officials after the latest round of poll-related violence in the state.
Meanwhile, actor-politician Kamal Haasan, who has found himself at the centre of a raging controversy over his “free India’s first extremist was a Hindu” remark, on Wednesday said he had only spoken about what was a ‘historic truth’ and did not use the term ‘terrorist’. He asked if his critics could show instances of his remarks that could incite violence and said the accusations against him had hurt him.
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