Delhi Polls: EC orders removal of Anurag Thakur, Parvesh Verma from BJP’s star campaigners list

The Delhi Election Commission has ordered the removal of Anurag Thakur and Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma from the list of star campaigners of BJP for Delhi Elections with immediate effect & until further notice.

Order of Election Commission

Ban on campaigning

This comes after a delegation of Congress leaders approached the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday asking for a ban on campaigning by Minister of State for Finance Anurag Thakur and BJP Lok Sabha MP Parvesh Verma for the February 8 Delhi Assembly elections because of their “provocative statements to incite communal violence”.

Use of objectionable language

“The BJP’s star campaigners Parvesh Verma and Anurag Thakur have used objectionable language. Top BJP leaders, including Home Minister Amit Shah, are going around the lanes and bylanes of Delhi, making provocative statements to polarise the atmosphere and incite communal violence. The BJP is doing so out of frustration,” senior Congress leader Ajay Maken told reporters after handing over a memorandum.

“The ECI has accepted that they have made provocative statements and we have demanded that they be banned from campaigning,” he added.

Mr. Maken said that the EC informed the delegation led by Delhi Congress chief Subhash Chopra that a meeting of all senior poll and police officials would be convened on January 31.

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