Not PM Modi's bridges inaugurations, but Gujarat Elections 2022 delayed due to...': EC on Congress' allegations
Not PM Modi's bridges inaugurations, but Gujarat Elections 2022 delayed due to...': EC on Congress' allegations
New Delhi: Not Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit, but recent Morbi bridge collapse and other multiple factors delayed the polling dates of Gujarat Assembly elections 2022, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar said on Thursday.
Countering the allegations of “unfairness” by the Congress because of the delay in Gujarat Assembly elections 2022, CEC Rajiv Kumar said: “Recently a very tragic incident occurred in Gujarat, the Morbi Bridge collapse – one of the reasons why we delayed. Also, there was state mourning in the state yesterday.”
The CEC also said “there has actually been no delay in the Gujarat election announcement” as there are still 110 days left for the term of the state assembly.
Newly elected non-Gandhi Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday (1 November) claimed that Gujarat Assembly polls 2022 were delayed so that he can inaugurate “more bridges like the one that fell in Morbi”.
Addressing a gathering during ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ in Telangana, the Congress president said: “Prime Minister Narendra Modi is touring Gujarat for last six days. Polls schedule for Himachal Pradesh is released but the poll schedule for Gujarat isn’t released as he has to inaugurate many more bridges there like the one that collapsed in Morbi.”
His remarks came two days after the British-era ‘hanging bridge’ in Morbi collapsed killing 135 people and injuring more than 100 people.
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