Senior Congress leader Manish Tewari lodged a complaint with the Election Commission, seeking action against those indulging in “false and malicious” propaganda against him and his family on social media. Tewari, was involved in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Delhi and petrol was supplied from his filling station to “burn Sikhs”. Our family has never owned a petrol pump ever in our lives anywhere in India. ‘Outrageous lies’“Those who failed in trying to raise the outside bogey against me have now stooped too low to malign me and my family with outrageous lies,” Mr. Tewari said on Thursday. Voting in Punjab will take place in the last phase of the Lok Sabha election on May 19.

Source: The Hindu May 02, 2019 17:26 UTC