Varanasi, May 12: Ajay Rai, Congress candidate from Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi parliamentary constituency, Mon courted contention once he walked into a place to vote with the party symbol tucked on his kurta.
Election law bans the utilization of any party image among 100 metres of the poll station. officers within the district say the Congress candidate had so profaned the law.
Dressed in a cream colored kurta and payjama, Rai walked into the polling place early within the day to forged his vote.
He was amid his wife and he spoke to reporters among ten metres of the place, that once more is a breach of law.
Senior district officers told that the official has sought video footage which action would follow shortly.
An FIR was lodged against Gujarat Chief Minister and BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi once he addressed a presser outside a place in Gandhinagar and had clicked a selfie with the lotus party image in his hand.
The district administration had then processed that Modi was well outside the one hundred metre illegal distance once the news conference occurred.
Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal, who is the party’s candidate from Varanasi, told reporters that Rai had clearly profaned the law.
