NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Sunday imposed a 24-hour campaign ban on BJP leader Sayantanu Basu as well as Trinamool Congress candidate from Arambag Sujata Mondal for their separate remarks found to be in violation of the model code of conduct.
The 24-hour ban on both leaders will kick in at 7pm on Sunday. With public meetings and rallies barred between 7 pm and 10am anyway on account of Covid, the ban will effectively restrain them from active campaigning for 9 hours only.
Basu had, in a speech delivered at North 24 Parganas on April 12, linked the April 10 firing by the Central forces in Sitalkuchi to the death of 18-year-old Ananda Barman, brother of BJP’s shakti pramukh, and threatened that four persons will be killed for each political murder.