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EC notice to Rahul for his ISI-Muzaffarnagar riot victim remarks

New Delhi: The Election Commission today issued a notice to Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi for his speeches in which he said Pakistan's ISI was in touch with Muzaffarnagar riot victims and charged BJP with

PTI Updated on: October 31, 2013 23:46 IST

BJP had handed over a memorandum to Chief Election Commissioner V S Sampath, seeking withdrawal of recognition given to Congress as a national party and also demanding action against the party's vice-president for violating the code.

Citing excerpts from Gandhi's speech made in Churu in Rajasthan last week, BJP had said its tone and tenor was to incite communal hatred and tension between Hindu-Sikhs and Hindu-Muslims and make an appeal for votes in favour of Congress on the basis of communal sentiments.

In Indore, Gandhi had in his speech claimed that intelligence agencies in Pakistan were approaching some victims of Muzaffarnagar riots to lure them to terrorism.

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