EC sends notice to Telangana BJP MLA for threatening UP voters

The Election Commission has found Telangana Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) leader T Raja Singh guilty of violating the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) and has issued a show-cause notice on his provocative statement.

New Delhi: The Election Commission has found Telangana Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) leader T Raja Singh guilty of violating the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) and has issued a show-cause notice on his provocative statement. The commission has said that T Raja Singh's statement in which he threatened the voters in Uttar Pradesh was a violation of MCC. The notice said that if T Raja Singh fails to give a satisfactory reply to the Commission, the election body will take action against him in the model code violation case as per the established norms and rules.

Earlier, on February 15, MLA Singh from Hyderabad's Goshamahal said: "Yogiji has brought thousands of JCBs and bulldozers into UP. After the polling, we will list out the voters who do not cast their votes to BJP. You might have already guessed what the bulldozers and JCBs are for. If you want to live in UP, you should vote for BJP or leave the state."

In June 2021, Singh was sentenced to one-year imprisonment by a local court in Telangana for making controversial remarks on the beef festival. A case was also registered against Singh in Hyderabad five years ago. He was accused of misbehaving with the police to disrupt the beef festival.

Earlier, in February 2019, the controversial BJP had called Sania Mirza a Pakistani. "Our honourable Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao made Sania Mirza the Telangana brand ambassador, who is a Pakistani after marrying a Pakistani, she automatically becomes a Pakistani," he had said.