Assembly Elections 2021 Live: EC seeks report on Trinamool’s grievance about PM’s picture on vaccine certificates

According to a functionary, the Chief Election Officer has been directed to file a report back to confirm the TMC’s grievance, PTI reported. The EC has additionally requested the Health Ministry to weigh in on the grievance.
Assembly Elections 2021 Live: The Election Commission (EC) has sought a report from the Chief Election Officer in West Bengal following the Trinamool Congress’ grievance towards using Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s {photograph} on Covid vaccination certificates within the state. The celebration claimed that utilizing the picture was in violation of the mannequin code. 
According to a functionary, the Chief Election Officer has been directed to file a report back to confirm the TMC’s grievance, PTI reported. The EC has additionally requested the Health Ministry to weigh in on the grievance. 
“We want to ascertain the facts first. For instance, whether these certificates are indeed being distributed on the instructions of the Health Ministry. As a matter of routine, we always seek a response from all the involved parties in such complaints,” an EC official stated. 
Meanwhile in Assam, the Congress hopes to offer incumbent BJP a troublesome combat. For the primary time in latest historical past, the celebration has tasked its chief ministers with election duties to show the nook in different states — Chhattisgarh’s Bhupesh Baghel in Assam and Rajasthan’s Ashok Gehlot in Bengal.
According to sources, Baghel plans to copy the Chhattisgarh mannequin within the poll-bound state. His three key advisors — Vinod Verma, Ruchir Garg and Rajesh Tiwari — are stationed in Assam, and over two dozen groups comprising native Congress leaders from Chhattisgarh have been moved to Assam to supervise the election efforts.
Down South, the saffron celebration introduced that it was nominating E Sreedharan, popularly generally known as the ‘Metro Man’, because the the celebration’s chief minister candidate for the upcoming Kerala Assembly elections. Sreedharan, 88, joined the BJP final week.

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