The Election Commission has held that Congress president Rahul Gandhi did not violate the model code of conduct during an election speech in Madhya Pradesh where he called his BJP counterpart Amit Shah a "murder-accused". Gandhi made the purported remark during an election rally in Sihora district of Madhya Pradesh on April 23.Attacking the BJP president, Gandhi reportedly said, "Murder accused BJP chief Amit Shah. The BJP had complained to the EC about the comment. The remark had prompted a strong rebuttal from Shah, who questioned the opposition leader's "legal knowledge" and said the "fake" charge was dismissed as "politically motivated" by the court long ago. I was slapped with a fake case and the court has already passed its order that it was a politically motivated allegation and was without any evidence.

Source: dna May 02, 2019 14:26 UTC