Rahul Gandhi had in his speech at Indore and at Churu in Rajasthan ,claimed and said that :
a) "intelligence agencies in Pakistan were approaching some victims of Muzaffarnagar riots to lure them to terrorism"and claimed "the intelligence official told him he was convincing the youngsters to stay away from the influence of Pakistani operatives".
b) "BJP felt that unless there is a Hindu versus Muslim situation in Uttar Pradesh, they would not do well. So, they set this fire," Gandhi had alleged, adding it was Congress which had "doused the fire".
c)"They (BJP) have set this fire, now who will douse it? Wherever they go, they set this fire thinking they will benefit in the elections. But they don't see that it damages the country," the Congress leader had said.
d) (BJP had said) "its tone and tenor was to incite communal hatred and tension between Hindus-Sikhs and Hindus-Muslims and make an appeal for votes in favour of Congress on the basis of communal sentiments".
e) "I was seeing my face in their grief. That is why I am against their (BJP's) politics....What do they do. They will put Muzaffarnagar on fire, Gujarat on fire, UP on fire and Kashmir on fire and then you and we will have to douse that. This damages the country," .
BJP had complained to the Commission seeking action against Gandhi for allegedly violating the code of conduct by appealing for votes on communal lines and inciting hatred among different communities. BJP had handed over a memorandum to Chief Election Commissioner, seeking withdrawal of recognition given to Congress as a national party and also demanding action against the party's Vice President for violating the code.
The Election Commission, after examining Gandhi's speeches made in Churu, Rajasthan, on October 23 and in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, on October 24 and after taking into account the electoral officer's report, had asked him to explain by Monday why action should not be initiated against him for prima facie violating the Model Code of Conduct.
EC notice served on him had said,"The Commission is prima facie of the view that your aforesaid speeches are violating of above-referred sub paras (1), (2) and (3) of Para 1 of the Model Code of Conduct for political parties and candidates," and Rahul was asked to reply to the EC notice by 11.30 am today (Monday 04 /11/2013)
The Commission has said that in case no reply is received within the prescribed time limit, it will be presumed that he has nothing to say and it will proceed to take appropriate action without any further reference.
Rahul Gandhi failed to submit any reply and seeks more time to reply to EC notice on poll code violation.