Lok Sabha polls top updates: Election Commission asks Aam Aadmi Party to modify campaign song

The Election Commission on Saturday asked the Aam Aadmi Party to modify the content of its Lok Sabha election campaign song. The poll body also ordered re-elections at a polling station in Karnataka’s Hannur. The Congress, meanwhile, harped on a video of Acharya Pramod Krishnam to claim that the Bharatiya Janata Party would change the Constitution and scrap caste-based reservation if voted back to power.

Here’s a look at today’s top developments:

• The Election Commission told the Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday that the phrase “jail ke jawaab me hum vote denge” (we will give votes in response to ministers being thrown into prison) with the visuals of an “aggressive mob holding the photo of Arvind Kejriwal showing him behind bars, casts aspersions on the Judiciary”, reported ANI. The poll body has asked the ruling party in Delhi to resubmit the campaign song for certification after making the required changes. The notice came after a complaint filed by the Bharatiya Janata Party, reported NDTV.

• Speaking at a press conference on Sunday, Aam Aadmi Party leader Atishi claimed that this was the first time the Election Commission had imposed a ban on a party’s campaign song. “The song does not mention the BJP and does not violate the Model Code of Conduct,” she...

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