Congress responds to EC with a ‘cow milk’ question-answer, extra pointed costs after ballot panel rubbishes ‘chori’
The Congress responded by repeating some pointed questions, and a few mirth, after the Election Fee rubbished its costs of “vote chori (theft)” on Sunday.
The Kerala Congress deal with on X deployed sarcasm, looking for to explain the EC’s press convention “in a coconut shell”.
It posted a query: “Why is cow’s milk thought-about nutritious?”
And posted a winding, absurd reply, attributing it to the ballot panel. “ECI: Cow is gorgeous. The second it wakes up, it’s milked and tied to a coconut tree. The coconut tree grows 70 ft tall. When coconuts ripen, they fall, husk is eliminated, dried within the solar, then milled for oil. From that oil, banana chips are fried. Chips are available many sorts, however the unripe ones style finest. That’s what we serve with night tea at workplace,” the publish learn.
Celebration spokesperson Pawan Khera was extra pointed, when requested to answer the EC’s argument that it couldn’t share information corresponding to CCTV footage of polling stations as that may “breach voter privateness”.
Khera stated, “If you don’t intend to share the footage, why do you occasion document it?”
He cited the EC’s recently-revised guidelines to maintain the footage for 45 days after which destroy it. “Why is not privateness hampered in these 45 days?” Khera argued, chatting with reporters in Sasaram, Bihar.
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Khera was in Sasaram because the Opposition led by the Congress and RJD held a ‘Voter Adhikaar Rally’ in opposition to the continued Particular Intensive Revison (SIR) in poll-bound Bihar.
On the rally, Rahul Gandhi repeated the cost that the EC was “colluding” with the BJP.
Khera, too, stated “We had hoped that at this time he (CEC Gyanesh Kumar) would reply our questions… (however) he was talking like a BJP chief.”
He additionally accused the CEC of not giving any response on the allegations of 1 lakh faux voters in Mahadevapura section within the Bangalore Central Lok Sabha constituency. This was one of many main “examples of vote chori” cited by Rahul Gandhi at his press convention on the topic earlier this month.
The CEC was requested about faux voters, and responded: “Ought to we simply randomly ship letters to round 1.5 lakh voters and name them and harass them, and say ‘you might be faux so we’d like an oath’?”
On privateness, the CEC centered his argument round girls, and stated, “Ought to the Election Fee share CCTV movies of anybody’s mom, daughter-in-law, sister, or of anybody else? Solely those that have their names on the voter lists can vote in an election.”
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Congress chief Kanhaiya Kumar took a jibe on the EC officers, too, saying: “The EC ought to cease conducting and begin contesting elections themselves.”
