“We are not happy to drag the EC to court but what else could we have done?” Mahila Congress chief and Lok Sabha MP Sushmita Dev told The Telegraph. Dev has moved the petition through top lawyer and party spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi, who himself had on Saturday expressed exasperation over the commission’s inaction. We filed 41 complaints so far and action had been taken in each case except the eight related to Modi and Shah. “No other individual has shown such a flagrant disregard for the doctrine of level-playing field like Modi and Shah (have). The EC inaction is in effect a tacit endorsement of the violations by Modi and Shah.

Source: The Telegraph April 30, 2019 01:30 UTC