Panaji, March 21 (IANS) The Congress Friday accused office of the chief electoral officer (CEO) of bias towards the ruling BJP in Goa, claiming that the authority was dragging feet over a complaint against the chief minister's office staffers.
"On March 15, we complained to the CEO about two senior officials of the chief minister office (CMO) campaigning for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Facebook, despite model code of conduct coming into force. There has been no response from the office yet," Congress spokesperson Durgadas Kamat told reporters.
The spokesperson said the Congress suspected the CEO's office had a bias towards the BJP-led government. Despite the complaint joint secretary in the CMO Siddharth Kunkolienkar continued to campaign for the BJP on the social networking site.
"The very fact that officials from the CMO are showing such contempt for the election authority shows that something is fishy," Kamat said.
According to the code of conduct issued by the Election Commission of India, government officials are banned from political activity.
On Wednesday, CEO Keshav Chandra told reporters that typically a code of conduct violation complaint was disposed within 24 hours.
"At the most if we need consultation from other agencies, we take 24 hours more," Chandra added.
He also told reporters that vis-a-vis the complaint filed by the Congress regarding the violation of the code of conduct via Facebook had already been referred to the chief secretary for comments.
Defence ministry under monkey-attack: Parrikar
Panaji, March 8 (IANS) Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar
Shiv Sena virtually terms BJP 'old wine in new bottle'
Mumbai, Feb 23 (IANS) The Shiv Sena Monday virtually termed the BJP - its ally in the Maharasht
Naib Singh Saini, who became the hero of BJP's victory in Haryana, will once again become the Chi
With Russia and Ukraine joining the war and Finland and Sweden joining NATO, a Cold War-like situ
Recently Prabhas's film 'Kalki 2898 AD' has been released. This film is getting a positive respon
In IPL 2022, Rashid Khan performed brilliantly with the ball and bat for Gujarat Titans. While to
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is interacting with healthcare workers of Goa and the beneficiaries
Tamil Nadu: Shah raged on DMK, said - A Raja anti-women, teach lessons to mothers and sisters
Union Home Minister Amit Shah attacked the DMK for allegedly derogatory remarks by DMK leader A R
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman made a big announcement about cryptocurrencies while presenti
Minsk summit to discuss Ukraine crisis Feb 11
Munich, Feb 8 (IANS) A summit meeting to discuss ways of solving the Ukraine crisis will be he
