New Delhi:

Former Telangana Chief Minister Ok Chandrashekar Rao, popularly referred to as KCR, has been was banned by the Election Fee in the present day from campaigning for 48 hours for his “derogatory” statements in opposition to the Congress. The 48-hour ban comes into power at 8 pm this night.

The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) president has been barred from holding any public conferences, public processions, public rallies, reveals and interviews, and public utterances in media in reference to the continuing election for 2 days, stated the Election Fee, “strongly condemning his impugned statements”.

The Congress had complained to the election panel on April 6 about sure “objectionable” remarks issued by KCR at a press meet in Telangana’s Sircilla city a day earlier.

The fee had earlier issued a show-cause discover to KCR over the alleged remarks. Responding to the discover on April 23, the previous Chief Minister, nonetheless, denied the cost. He identified that the that means of his unique assertion has been misplaced in translation: “The officers accountable for election in Telangana and Sircilla will not be Telugu folks and so they hardly perceive the native dialect of Telugu.”

He additionally accused the Congress of selecting some sentences from his press convention out of context. “The English translation of the sentences isn’t appropriate and twisted,” he stated.

KCR insisted that he had confined his criticism to the insurance policies and programmes of the Congress and that he had not gone into private elements of any Congress chief because the Election Fee stated.

After going via the content material of the Congress grievance and KCR’s reply, the fee discovered that the BRS chief “has violated the provisions of the Mannequin Code of Conduct”.

Ok Chandrashekar Rao is the second politician to be banned from campaigning for 48 hours after Congress chief Randeep Singh Surjewala within the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.