SC to hear Congress plea on seeking action against PM Modi, Amit Shah for poll code violation

The Supreme Court has accepted the Congress' plea on seeking action against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah for poll code violation. The top court will hear the plea on Tuesday.

The Congress has moved to top court and alleged inaction by the Election Commission in looking into alleged poll code violation by PM Narendra Modi and Amit Shah.

Congress parliamentarian Sushmita Dev had filed a petition before the Supreme Court on Monday, seeking urgent and necessary directions to the Election Commission to take a decision on the complaints filed against PM Modi & BJP President Amit Shah over alleged violations of electoral law.

In her petition, Dev said thar PM Narendra Modi and Amit Shah had used hate speech at rallies to polarise voters and referred to the operations by the armed forces in their political propaganda despite the poll body's ban for using military forces in political speech in the wake of the Pulwama terror attack and the Balakot air strikes

At a rally in Gujarat's Surendranagar district on April 17, PM Modi has claimed that his government had called Pakistan's bluff after the Pulwama terror attack.

"Earlier terrorists from Pakistan would carry out attacks in our country and go back unscathed, threatening to launch their nuclear bombs if we retaliate. But we have the nuclear bomb of nuclear bombs. I told them to do what they want (but we will retaliate)," the Prime Minister said.

While Shah at a public meeting in Bihar's Sitamarhi had said PM Modi government has secured country's borders and made national security its priority. "India is only the third country after Israel and United States to have retaliated to terrorism in this brave manner," Shah said.

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