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Khurshid did not violate model code: Congress tells poll panel
Friday January 20, 2012 09:59:24 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The
Congress Friday told the Election Commission that party leader Salman Khurshid did not violate the model code of conduct by
promising nine percent reservation to minorities if the Congress
is voted to power in Uttar Pradesh.
Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi told reporters after a
meeting with the poll panel that the promise of quota for
minorities had been made in the party's election manifesto for
2009 Lok Sabha polls.
Khurshid has also defended his remarks.
Singhvi said Khurshid had not referred to any particular community
and had only reiterated a pre-declared government policy.
The Election Commission had issued a showcause notice to Khurshid
after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) protested his remark at an
election rally that the Congress will provide nine percent
reservation to minorities from the existing 27 percent reservation
for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) if voted to power in Uttar
Pradesh.
Khurshid made the remark at a rally at Farrukhabad where his wife
Louise is in the fray for the assembly polls.
Singhvi said Khurshid was not speaking as a union minister but as
a Congressman and had no intention of violating the model code of
conduct.
The Congress spokesman said that "declaration of inclusionary
kind" regarding minorities had been made in the Congress
manifestos for Uttar Pradesh elections and in 2009 for the Lok
Sabha elections.
Singhvi hoped proceedings in the case "can be dropped at some
stage."
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