Meanwhile, Manithaneya Makkal Katchi president M.H. Jawahirullah has written to the Chief Election Commissioner, Rajiv Kumar, seeking disqualification of Mr. Modi and a ban on his campaign in respect of the speech.
In a letter to the Election Commission (EC), Prof. Jawahirullah quoted Mr. Modi as saying, “The Congress manifesto says they will calculate the gold with mothers and sisters, get information about it, and distribute that property. They will distribute it to whom? Manmohan Singh’s government had said Muslims have the first right on the country’s assets. It will be distributed among those who have more children. It will be distributed to the infiltrators. Should your hard-earned money go to the infiltrators? Do you approve of this?...”
According to Prof. Jawahirullah, “the vicious and insidious speech” calling Indian Muslims infiltrators, by accusing the Congress of planning to distribute wealth to Indian Muslims, and referring to Indian Muslims as “those with more children” amounted to egregious violation of the Constitution, the Representation of People’s Act, 1951, and the Model Code of Conduct. It was “criminal” on many counts as it categorises all Muslim citizens of the country as usurpers of the nation’s wealth, he added.
