The All India Congress Committee (AICC) has made a complaint with the Election Commission seeking disqualification of Govind Singh Rajput, BJP
candidate from Surkhi, Sagar District (MP) from contesting the present
assembly elections.
Rajput had publicly claimed that he would pay Rs. 25 Lakhs to the prabharis of booths where the maximum number of votes would be casted for the BJP. A FIR has already been registered against Govind Singh Rajput, said AICC communique of October 25, 2023.
On October 25, 2023 a delegation of senior INC leaders met with the Chief Election Commissioner and his companion Election Commissioners.
The delegation presented detailed complaints and factual memoranda filed by the INC in relation to the upcoming State Elections in Chhattisgarh, Telangana, and Madhya Pradesh.
The Delegation consisted of the leaders including Jairam Ramesh, MP (Rajya Sabha) & AICC General Secretary In-charge Communications, Salman Khurshid, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India, Manikrao Thakre, AICC State In-Charge for State of Telangana, Revanth Reddy, Member of Parliament & President Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee, Uttam Kumar Reddy, Member of Parliament and Bhatti Vikramarka, MLA & CLP Leader (Telangana Legislative Assembly).
The other complaints made by the AICC include Complaint against Union Home Minister, Amit Shah’s election speech in Chhattisgarh (Rajnandgaon) [16.10.2023]. In the speech, the HM had claimed that, “….Bhupesh Baghel’s
Government for appeasement politics, and vote bank politics, lynched Chhattisgarh’s son Bhuneshwar Sahoo and got him killed…” and subsequently sought votes by stating, “Bharatiya Janata Party has pledged that we will bring justice to Bhuvneshwar Sahoo’s killers and in his honour, we are fielding his father Shri. Ishwar Sahoo as a candidate in the elections.”
Another complaint is against the Union Government’s orders directing Civil
Servants and Indian Army Soldiers to promote achievements of BJP led
Union Government. These acts of politicising the conduct of Civil
Servants and Army Soldiers violating the Model Code of Conduct and the
Central Civil Services (Conduct) Rules, 1964.
