Nov 16, 2024 08:22 PM IST
Chief of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi’s bag was searched by Election Fee officers at Amravati in poll-bound Maharashtra on Saturday, making him the newest high politician whose baggage was checked forward of the November 20 voting within the state.
The ballot authorities inspected Gandhi’s bag after his helicopter landed on the helipad in Dhamangaon Railway, one of many 8 meeting seats within the Amravati district. The Congress MP was right here for an election rally, PTI reported.
Nonetheless, the officers’ motion elicited a powerful response from the grand outdated social gathering.
“Why do not they test the luggage of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Residence Minister Amit Shah and Chief Minister Eknath Shinde?” Congress’ Teosa MLA Yashomati Thakur, a former Maharashtra minister, mentioned to reporters.
The Election Fee has mandated frisking of the luggage of politicians to implement the mannequin code of conduct throughout elections.
Though a normal observe in the course of the mannequin code, the train invited the wrath of ex-Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, who heads the Shiv Sena (UBT), a Congress ally.
Thackeray’s belongings had been checked twice – first in Yavatmal on Monday and in Latur the next day.
The Sena (UBT) accused the Election Fee of not conducting comparable searches on leaders of the ruling Mahayuti alliance of the BJP, Shiv Sena and NCP.
Nonetheless, movies later emerged of ballot authorities inspecting the belongings of politicians from the events within the Mahayuti coalition, together with Chief Minister Shinde (Shiv Sena), Deputy CMs Devendra Fadnavis (BJP) and Ajit Pawar (NCP), Union ministers Amit Shah and Nitin Gadkari (each BJP), amongst others.
The counting of votes for the 288 meeting seats in Maharashtra shall be held on November 23.
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