Karnataka Election: EC issues notice to state Congress chief DK Shivakumar over 'corruption rate card' ads against BJP

The Election Commission on Saturday issued a notice to Karnataka Congress chief DK Shivakumar over the party’s “corruption rate card” advertisements published in newspapers targeting the BJP and sought “empirical” evidence to prove its allegations by Sunday evening.

The notice was issued following a complaint lodged by the BJP.

Ahead of the 10 May Assembly polls in Karnataka, Congress released a set of posters and advertisements listing “corruption rates” in the state between 2019 and 2023 while terming the BJP government a “trouble engine”.

“It is a fair assumption that INC possesses the material/empirical/verifiable evidence based on which these specific/explicit ‘facts’ have been published, an action which can fairly be assessed to embed knowledge, motive, and intent to do so by the author,” the EC notice read.

It asked the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president to “convey the empirical evidence of the same, for example, the evidences for rates for kinds of appointments & transfers, kinds of jobs and kinds of commission mentioned in the advertisement given by you along with if any explanation by 19.00 hrs on 7th May 2023 and also put that in public domain.”

With inputs from PTI

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