PANJIM: The Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) has granted clean chit to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a complaint filed by BJP alleging inciting religious sentiments in his poll speech.
While disposing off the complaint, the CEO stated that an inquiry found “no direct statement which is objectionable, derogatory or violation of model code of conduct. So also, there is no inflammatory statement.”
“Hence, the matter is treated as disposed,” CEO said quoting the inquiry report submitted by South Goa district election officer Ajit Roy.
Kejriwal, the star campaigner for Aam Aadmi Party, had addressed poll rally in Margao on April 13.
BJP leader Keshav Prabhu in his complaint had attached several newspaper cuttings, which according to him, validated that Kejirwal tried to create communal disharmony in the State. “Kejriwal has been reported to have made utterances such as ‘Mob lynching taking place in the county under the guise of cattle theft is actually organised murder,” the complaint stated.
Prabhu had also accused the Delhi chief minister of trying to spread fear among the Christian and Muslim communities by claiming that the Central government wants to drive them into the sea by falsely accusing them of being infiltrators.
