Slamming the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) for registering “frivolous” and “baseless” complaints, the Congress on Monday conveyed to the Election Commission that no violation of the Representation of the People Act was done during the Bharat Jodo Yatra and children were not used for campaigning.
A Congress delegation of general secretary Jairam Ramesh, party’s social media head Supriya Shrinate and senior leader Salman Khurshid met Election Commission officials to reply to a notice by the poll watchdog over a complaint by the child rights body, NCPCR.
“We met the members of the Election Commission and informed them that neither was there any violation of the Representation of the People Act nor of model code during the Bharat Jodo Yatra. We fail to understand why Election Commission has given us a notice on the complaint of NCPCR,” Mr. Ramesh told reporters after meeting the EC officials.
