{"id":311307,"date":"2019-04-16T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T07:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311307"},"modified":"2019-04-16T07:00:11","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T07:00:11","slug":"sc-rejects-mayawatis-plea-against-campaign-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sc-rejects-mayawatis-plea-against-campaign-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"SC rejects Mayawati\u2019s plea against campaign ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-299905 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/22a-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22a-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22a-768x474.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22a-1024x632.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22a-356x220.jpg 356w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22a-696x430.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22a-680x420.jpg 680w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22a.jpg 1045w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to entertain Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati\u2019s plea against the 48-hour ban on campaigning imposed by the Election Commission (EC).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;It seems the Election Commission has woken up by our orders and taken action against various politicians from campaigning for varying timing,\u201d the court said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mayawati had been barred from campaigning for 48 hours by the EC over an alleged speech delivered by her during an election campaign rally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Besides Mayawati, the EC has also barred Uttar\u2009Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath, Union minister Maneka Gandhi and Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Azam Khan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Commission had earlier served a show cause notice on Yogi Adityanath for his \u201cAli-Bajrang Bali\u201d remark at a political rally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On April 9, Yogi Adityanath, at a rally had said that if the Congress, SP and the BSP had faith in \u201cAli\u201d, \u201cthen we also have faith in Bajrang Bali\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Commission also took note of Mayawati\u2019s speech at Deoband on April 7. After going through a video clip of her speech, the poll panel said it was, prima facie, a violation of the Model Code of Conduct (MCC).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to entertain Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati\u2019s plea against the 48-hour ban on campaigning imposed by the Election Commission (EC). &#8220;It seems the Election Commission has woken up by our orders and taken action against various politicians from campaigning for varying timing,\u201d the court said. Mayawati had been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":299905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,1801],"tags":[9989,1005,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311308,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311307\/revisions\/311308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}