"The Election Commission has ordered the removal of Anurag Thakur and Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma from the list of star campaigners of the Bharatiya Janata Party for the general elections to the Legislative Assembly of the NCT of Delhi with immediate effect and until further orders," it stated.
The poll body has given Parvesh Verma time till 12 noon on 30th January to provide an explanation, failing which EC will take a decision on the matter.
While speaking to ABP News Parvesh Verma said that the EC has asked for his removal from the list of star campaigners but has not barred him from campaigning for the party.
“EC has asked to drop my name from the list of star campaigners, but has not prevented me from campaigning for the party. So I will keep on campaigning for BJP. I anyway don’t consider myself a ‘star’ campaigner. My task is to be among the common people, as their representative.”
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During an election rally here, BJP leader and Union minister Thakur egged on the crowd to raise an incendiary slogan - "traitors should be shot at" -- after he lashed out at anti-CAA protesters.
West Delhi MP Verma on Tuesday said what happened in Kashmir with Kashmiri Pandits could happen in Delhi, warning that lakhs of anti-CAA protesters in Shaheen Bagh could enter homes to kill and rape women.
The statement by the two leaders has cost the BJP big ahead of the high-stake Delhi election.