Several statements of PM Modi violate Model Code of Conduct: Sitaram Yechury

Kozhikode: CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Thursday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of making statements which were allegedly violative of the Model Code of Conduct during his Lok Sabha poll campaign in various parts of the country.

Yechury said that he has given a complaint in this regard to the Election Commission listing out the statements made by Modi allegedly “aimed at sharpening communal polarisation on the issue of Ram”.

The veteran CPI(M) leader was speaking to the media in this north Kerala district where he also criticised the Congress and the UDF for accusing the Left front of not opposing Modi and the BJP.

He said that it was “strange” that the Congress and the UDF were accusing the LDF, particularly the CPI(M), of being silent on attacking Modi.

Yechury said that he was one of the first political leaders to be arrested for opposing the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the Left party was the one which moved a habeas corpus plea in the Supreme Court against alleged detention of politicians in Kashmir after Article 370 was abrogated and the CPI(M) was also the first to oppose the electoral bonds in the top court.

He said that in all these issues and various others, it was the CPI(M) which was at the front opposing the saffron party and questioned “in all these instances where were those who charge us with not opposing the BJP”.

Yechury’s statement came in the wake of the social media campaign against CPI(M)’s Vatakara LS candidate K K Shailaja.

Terming the campaign against her as “virulent and obscene”, he said that it indicates that she has won the election.