PM’s event doesn’t violate Model Code of Conduct: EC

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PM

Narendra Modi

‘s two-day meditation does not violate the silence-period in force for Phase 7 of general election 2024, as

Representation of the People Act

, 1951, prohibits campaigning only in the constituencies going to polls in that phase, as per an assessment of EC, reports .
Congress had alleged that the trip was a “tactic” to circumvent the silence period and “unfairly leverage the ethno-cultural significance of the chosen location…to bolster his (Modi’s) campaign”.