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| Religious coercion: PDP moves ECI against Sakina | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Mar 20: The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has lodged a formal complaint against the senior National Conference leader, Sakina Itoo, who is holding charge of Ministry of Social Welfare in the Omar Abdullah's government, with the Election Commission of India (ECI), for trying to coax and coerce people to join her party and vote for it by invoking religion.
Terming the issue as a major violation of Model Code of Conduct, the party has urged the ECI to take note of it.
The party Chief Spokesperson, Naeem Akhtar said a video that has gone viral in the social networking site including Facebook shows the Minister and few of her supporters, compelling an old man to support her in the coming election.
Akhtar said the issue is very sensitive in nature and it has been brought to the notice of ECI that how cheap tricks are being employed by the NC leaders to buy support.
The letter has pointed out that the minister and her associates are invoking Holy Quran and the affirmation of Muslim faith to seek the support of people shown in the video. They are clearly trying to force the people to swear by Quran and their Muslim faith that they would support and vote for the NC candidates, the letter reads further.
Akhtar said it is not the first time that the NC leaders have adopted such methods to engage the electorate in their favor but in the past also they have brazenly misused the religion to exploit people. |
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