EC orders 48-hour campaign ban on BJP’s Kapil Mishra for India vs Pak remark

The Election Commission on Saturday imposed a 48-hour campaigning ban on Kapil Mishra, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) candidate for Delhi’s Model Town constituency for the February 8 elections in Delhi’s assembly elections. The ban comes on the heels of the poll panel ordering Delhi Police to file a case against Mishra after his controversial ‘India vs Pak’ tweets which the Election Commission concluded “appeal to communal feelings”. Mishra sparked a massive row Thursday with a string of tweets that compared the February 8 election to an ‘India vs Pakistan’ clash. In his other tweets and public statements that followed, Kapil Mishra had claimed that ‘mini-Pakistans’ were being created in Delhi and alleged that “Pakistani rioters are occupying the roads’.

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Shows that Autonomy still exists with the governing bodies. Good decision