The court took the matter seriously and asked the election commission for its response. Condoning use of religion, armed forces for BJP’s election campaign? “Such hoardings send extremely misleading messages that recent activities were forced on the Indian Armed Forces to gain votes— construed as a violation of MCC,” wrote Batra in his complaint. "Such hoardings send extremely misleading messages that recent activities were forced on the Indian Armed Forces to gain votes," wrote Batra in his complaint. Indeed, critics and opposition parties consider the most recent use of religion in Modi’s election campaign to be the use of pictures from his visit to Kedarnath.

Source: Huffington Post May 22, 2019 00:33 UTC