05-06-2006, 10:26 PM
<!--emo&:argue--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/argue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='argue.gif' /><!--endemo--> BJP: EC should cancel elections in Tamil Nadu
Source: PTI.
Salem, May 6: BJP today asked the Election Commission to cancel Assembly polls in Tamil Nadu and conduct them once again as the DMK and AIADMK's announcements of freebies were against the model code of conduct.
"Dravidian parties have been announcing free rice, gold, TV, computer etc after the election notification was made, which amounts to code of conduct violation," BJP's poll in-charge in Tamil Nadu Rajiv Pratap Rudy told reporters here.
"The EC should conduct the poll process once again," he demanded.
Taking a dig at the parties, he said "they however, did not announce anything on providing employment to the jobless of the state." Rudy claimed that BJP would be a decisive factor in the government formation in the state. "Both the fronts would not get a clear majority and BJP's support would decide who should rule the state," he claimed.
On the DTH controversy surrounding Union Minister Dayanidhi Maran, he said "Maran himself should resign from his ministerial post". However, his party would take up the issue in the next session of the Parliament, he said.
Source: PTI.
Salem, May 6: BJP today asked the Election Commission to cancel Assembly polls in Tamil Nadu and conduct them once again as the DMK and AIADMK's announcements of freebies were against the model code of conduct.
"Dravidian parties have been announcing free rice, gold, TV, computer etc after the election notification was made, which amounts to code of conduct violation," BJP's poll in-charge in Tamil Nadu Rajiv Pratap Rudy told reporters here.
"The EC should conduct the poll process once again," he demanded.
Taking a dig at the parties, he said "they however, did not announce anything on providing employment to the jobless of the state." Rudy claimed that BJP would be a decisive factor in the government formation in the state. "Both the fronts would not get a clear majority and BJP's support would decide who should rule the state," he claimed.
On the DTH controversy surrounding Union Minister Dayanidhi Maran, he said "Maran himself should resign from his ministerial post". However, his party would take up the issue in the next session of the Parliament, he said.