New Delhi: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi is likely to respond to the Election Commission notice on Friday served to him last week saying that he violated the model code of conduct. Rahul had in his speech in Indore last month, said that Pakistani intelligence officers were approaching Muzaffarnagar riot victims to lure them to terrorism.
The Election Commission (EC) on Monday gave four days to Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi to respond to its notice on his speeches. The notice also pertains to the speech in which Gandhi had alleged that youth affected by the Muzaffarnagar riots were approached by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
On Thursday, Rahul Gandhi was issued notice by the poll panel for his speeches in which he accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of causing communal flare ups and said that ISI was contacting the Muzaffarnagar riot victims.
The commission, in its notice, said Gandhi's election speeches in Churu in Rajasthan on October 23 and Indore in Madhya Pradesh on October 24 were prima facie "violative" of the model code of conduct and asked him to reply by Monday why action should not be taken against him.
The notice was issued on the complaints made by the BJP to the commission. In a release, the EC said it viewed CDs of Gandhi's speeches and had detailed deliberations on the issue.
(With additional inputs from IANS)
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