Ahead of the election that starts on Thursday, the Election Commission of India says it is swamped with accusations of violation of election rules.
New Delhi - Did Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi break election rules by addressing the nation on an anti-satellite test recently? Is it right to have a channel dedicated to the leader? Can the country's armed forces be called "Modi's soldiers"?
"We normally ask our own field functionaries," he told Reuters. "It takes 12 hours or so to establish, only then we go for action." The panel, which has a staff of 300 at its headquarters in New Delhi, the capital, and more in India's states, has said it is impartial and acting against the guilty irrespective of party affiliation.
Last month the panel ruled Modi did not infringe election rules with a national broadcast that India shot down one of its own satellites using an anti-satellite missile in a major space breakthrough. Opposition parties had accused Modi of trying to reap political benefits with the announcement.
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