Azam Khan targets Election Commission; calls it BJP's election office
Azam Khan questioned EC for lifting ban on Amit Shah's after his hate speech
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2014-05-12 07:14 GMT
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party leader and Uttar Pradesh minister Mohammed Azam Khan, who has been banned by the EC from campaigning, has alleged that the poll panel was “acting like an election office of the BJP.”
Mr Khan told reporters that the EC was openly “helping the BJP in elections and had become a puppet in the hands of communal forces.”
He pointed out that the ban on his campaigning had not been lifted even though he had replied to the EC notice within the stipulated time.
“However Amit Shah’s ban was lifted and he was allowed to campaign even after his remark in which he described Azamgarh as a ‘hub of terrorists’,” he said.
The SP leader further said that BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi had campaigned as a prime minister even before results were announced and this makes the election pro-cess “unconstitutional.”
Meanwhile, the BJP has asked the poll panel to deploy more Central forces for the 18 seats going to polls on Monday since it apprehended lar-gescale disturbances by the Samajwadi Party.
BJP state president Laxmikant Bajpai voiced the apprehension that the SP workers could rig the last phase of polls in which party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav is contesting from Azamgarh.