Morphed pic of Cong. leader Harish Rawat: ECI warns Uttarakhand BJP to be more careful
The Hindu
The 70-member Uttarakhand Assembly is scheduled to go to polls on February 14 and the counting of votes will be taken up on March 10.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has warned the Uttarakhand BJP to be more careful in the future and advised it to follow all provisions of the poll code, days after it .
Last week, the poll panel had issued a notice to the Uttarakhand unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for tweeting a morphed image of former chief minister Mr. Rawat, in which he was shown as a Muslim cleric.
An ECI order issued on Wednesday said the Uttarakhand BJP has submitted that the purpose of the tweet was neither to violate any provisions of the Model Code of Conduct nor to create any differences between groups on the basis of religion, race, caste and language.