Highlights 1 India's Chief Election Commissioner, Achal Joti said that EC gives equal opportunities to every political party. The Election Commission, for the first time, broke its silence regarding EC's decision to hold back the Gujarat poll dates. India's Chief Election Commissioner, Achal Kumar Joti, on Monday rejected the opposition's charge that the Election Commission, India's top election body, is working under the pressure of National Democratic Alliance (NDA). He also said that political parties make poll promises during the campaigns and Election Commission is not acting till the model code of conduct comes in place after PM Narendra Modi announced schemes during his rallies in the poll-bound state. All parties make poll promises, even the opposition parties are promising lot of things we are not stopping anybody" he said.

Source: India Today October 23, 2017 11:09 UTC