New Delhi. The Election Commission has issued a notice to the Karnataka unit of the Congress over its ‘corruption rate card’ advertisements published in newspapers against the BJP and asked it to provide ’empirical’ evidence by Sunday evening to prove these allegations.
The Commission has issued this notice on Saturday evening following a complaint lodged by the Bharatiya Janata Party. Ahead of the assembly elections in Karnataka to be held on May 10, the Congress has listed the ‘corruption rate’ in the state between 2019 and 2023. Issued posters and advertisements while doing this and termed the BJP government as a ‘trouble engine’.
On the BJP’s complaint, the Election Commission issued a notice to the Congress saying, “It is a reasonable presumption that the Congress has material/empirical/verifiable evidence on the basis of which these specific/obvious ‘facts’ have been published”. , an action which can be objectively appraised to ascertain the knowledge, desire and intention of the author to do so.’
