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Modi attacks EC, takes out roadshow in Varanasi

Varanasi: Narendra Modi today launched an all-out war on the Election Commission accusing it of working “under pressure” and showing bias against him and took out a roadshow defying prohibitory orders over the denial of

PTI Published : May 08, 2014 19:59 IST, Updated : May 08, 2014 20:21 IST
The BJP had applied for an alternative site but later spurned the permissions given to it hold a rally in another place.  But the party insisted on holding it only in Beniabagh and turned all its guns on the EC.

Modi told the Congress that people have decided to defeat the party and “EC cannot make you win”.
On the security reasons cited for denial of permission, he said  the government need not worry about his security as he was ready to die for his country.

“Still, it is an attack on my democratic rights. Should I not get rights that every other candidate is entitled to get. I have been denied permission to meet mother Ganga too,” he said, while promising to come back for Ganga pujan soon.

He claimed he was being targetted for last 14 years and even CBI has been left after him.
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