India's election commission on Monday banned a Hindu state chief minister f...
NEW DELHI - India’s election commission on Monday banned a Hindu state chief minister from campaigning for three days after anti-Muslim comments in an election that will end next month.
The commission said Adityanath, chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, had spoken about a “green virus” in a speech last week in reference to Muslim voters who he said were being wooed by opposition parties. The election commission also imposed a ban on the leader of the Dalits, people at the bottom of the Hindu caste structure, saying she had violated a code of conduct by asking Muslims to vote en bloc for opposition candidates.A spokesman for Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party , which is in an alliance with another regional party in Uttar Pradesh, could not be reached for comment.
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