Act against Modi for 'chowkidar' campaign, Congress tells EC


Mumbai, Mar 19 (IANS): The Maharashtra Congress on Monday urged the Election Commission of India to act against Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the Bharatiya Janata Party's latest campaign, 'Main Bhi Chowkidar', an office-bearer said.

In a letter to the ECI, the state party secretary Taufiq Mullani has said that in the video of the new campaign - which is viral on social media - Modi has been shown riding on an Army tank, and interspersed with clips of the Indian soldiers fighting.

"This is a blatant violation of the ECI's order of March 9, 2019, reiterating its earlier directive of December 2013, prohibiting display of pictures of defence personnel or defence-related events for election campaign and political propaganda," Mullani told IANS.

The party pointed out that on one hand, Congress President Rahul Gandhi stood solidly behind the government in the wake of the Pulwama attacks, on the other, the BJP is "taking credit for the sacrifices of the soldiers and exploiting it politically during elections" through the aMain Bhi Chowikdar' campaign.

Attempting to turn the tables on the Opposition parties, Modi on Sunday launched the 'Main Bhi Chowkidar' campaign and changed his Twitter handle name to 'Chowkidar Narendra Modi'.

Soon, several party bigwigs and ministers also followed suit and prefixed their Twitter handle names with the word 'Chowkidar' (watchman).

  

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  • Roshan, Mangalore

    Tue, Mar 19 2019

    Frustrated pappu..😅😅

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  • anthony, Mangalore

    Tue, Mar 19 2019

    Chowkidar Saab, stop this drama about Chowkidar. You are the Prime Minister of a Great Country and need not stoop to such low levels to keep flogging the Victim card in all the elections. I suppose Chai wala is not giving you any political returns.

    Tell the country what have you achieved in the last five years.

    cynically exploiting the national security to hide your colossal failures.
    The five years of Modi-BJP government has been a period of false promises and betrayal of people's trust and confidence.
    This government has been a failure on all fronts and has inflicted pain and misery on the people through its reckless decisions of demonetisation and hasty imposition of a flawed GST, demonetization and GST disrupted the economy, trade and industry, led to closure of lakhs of factories and tens of millions of workers lost their jobs and livelihood. The unprecedented joblessness, agrarian crisis and distress of farmers and agricultural laborers are issues of grave national concern.

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  • Harold Dcunha, Mangalore, Mangalore, India

    Tue, Mar 19 2019

    Raphael ka gotala. Chawkidar Chor hai.

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  • David Pais, Mangalore

    Tue, Mar 19 2019

    will da puppet e.c. take action against chor chowkidar campaign.

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  • Af,,, Mangalore

    Tue, Mar 19 2019

    2014 main chaiwala, now main chowkidhar next what main chamcha.

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  • Bemmi, karla

    Tue, Mar 19 2019

    Gurkha Community on Strikes
    They saying we are the real chowkidar's :) :)

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  • Neeth, Mangalore

    Tue, Mar 19 2019

    Cry babies. Worried by the success of the chowkidar campaign

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  • Dalai Lama, Delhi

    Tue, Mar 19 2019

    Congress spent year with their fake campaign "chowkidar chor". Modi destroyed it in just one day, that too through Twitter. now Congress is crying. May 23, EVM hacking will happen for sure.

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  • shashi, Manglore

    Tue, Mar 19 2019

    Bhakts in future.Thappad se darr nahi lagtha sahab.Chowkidaar se lagtha hai lolz

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  • mohan, Mangalore

    Tue, Mar 19 2019

    This modis 5 year indias very very disastrous time if India.......and now this BJP election compain shows very very abnormal mentality of India ....
    It's very very bad

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  • Sk, Mangalore

    Tue, Mar 19 2019

    2G , CWG, Commonwealth, Land deal, Augusta, were golden era in Indian History

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Tue, Mar 19 2019

    Chowkidar is not a Bad Word.
    I wonder why Congress in Disturbed ...

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  • Rathan, Mangalore

    Tue, Mar 19 2019

    Jissy badal raha hai

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Tue, Mar 19 2019

    I am not a 'Blind Bhakt' ...

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  • Prashanth, karkala

    Tue, Mar 19 2019

    Desh ke saath,joseey bhi badal raha hai.

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  • gm, Mlur

    Tue, Mar 19 2019

    Not a bad word but not suits on all.

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  • deepakraj, mang/dxb

    Tue, Mar 19 2019

    Jossey bi Chawkidar...

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  • Rajkumar , Shirva, Shirva

    Tue, Mar 19 2019

    The objection is not for using the word chowkidar, but for the use of armed forces in the campaign video- which is a violation of EC directives.

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