Narendra Modi courts EC trouble over Lord Ram's poster on stage

05 May 2014 Evaluate

A day after Narendra Modi dared the Election Commission to take action against him; the poll plan has taken note: this time of the BJP using a poster of Lord Ram for its prime ministerial candidate's rally in Faizabad in Uttar Pradesh. After Modi was seen on Monday speaking from a dais with the deity's and a temple's poster in the background, the Election Commission has said he has violated the model code of conduct and sought footage of the public meeting.

Gujarat chief minister said that from Lord Ram's land he assures that he will keep fighting corruption all his life. Send lotuses from the land of Lord Ram and added that even Mahatma Gandhi espoused the cause of Ram Rajya.

Faizabad has been the seat of the Ram temple movement of the '90s that spurred support for the BJP. Lallu Singh is the BJP candidate from the temple town and is pitted against the Congress's state president Nirmal Khatri, who is a sitting MP.

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