Atishi blasts Election Commission over show-cause notice: ‘Subsidiary organisation of BJP?’

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Delhi minister and senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Atishi on Friday hit out at the Election Commission after it served her a show-cause notice, questioning if the poll body is a subsidiary organisation of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)..

On 4 April, the BJP registered a complaint against one of my press conferencesOn 5 April at 11:15 am, news channels flash that a notice had been sent to Atishi, but half an hour after the news, I got the notice in the mail..

This means that the BJP first plants the Election Commission notice in the media and after that, I get the noticeMy question is whether the Election Commission has become a subsidiary organisation of BJP, Atishi said during a press briefing. ..

Atishi questioned why the poll body did not issue notices to the central agencies after Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal was arrested and bank accounts of the Congress were frozen ahead of Lok Sabha elections..

Earlier in the day, the Election Commission issued a show-cause notice to Atishi following her claims that the BJP approached her to join their ranks through a very close person..

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