{"id":328225,"date":"2020-10-31T12:13:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T12:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=328225"},"modified":"2020-10-31T12:14:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T12:14:22","slug":"kamal-nath-moves-supreme-court-against-election-commissions-order-to-revoke-his-star-campaigner-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/kamal-nath-moves-supreme-court-against-election-commissions-order-to-revoke-his-star-campaigner-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamal Nath moves Supreme Court against Election Commission&#8217;s order to revoke his &#8216;star campaigner&#8217; status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/gujarat-riots-sc-grants-bail-to-14-convicts-in-sardarpura-massacre-case\/supreme-court-1068x706\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-319455\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-319455 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/supreme-court-1068x706-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"592\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/supreme-court-1068x706-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/supreme-court-1068x706-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/supreme-court-1068x706-1024x677.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/supreme-court-1068x706-696x460.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/supreme-court-1068x706.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/supreme-court-1068x706-635x420.jpg 635w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/a>Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Kamal Nath on Saturday approached Supreme Court against Election commission&#8217;s order of withdrawing his &#8216;star campaigner&#8217; status.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The Election Commission on Friday revoked the star campaigner status of Kamal Nath, citing repeated violation of Model Code of Conduct.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">For repeated violation of Model of Conduct and for \u201ccompletely disregarding\u201d the advisories issued to him, the commission revoked Kamal Nath\u2019s star campaigner status.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">If any campaign is done by Kamal Nath from now onwards, the entire expenditure related to travel, stay, the visit will be borne by the candidate in whose constituency campaign is being undertaken, the Election Commission\u2019s order states.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Kamal Nath had earlier been warned by the Election Commission after he used the word \u201citem\u201d for a woman BJP candidate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">While Campaigning, the former CM had mocked BJP\u2019s Imarti Devi, saying the Congress candidate was a simple person unlike his opponent, who was an item.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The Commission had advised Kamal Nath that while making public utterances he should not use any such word or statement during the period of Model Code of Conduct.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Kamal Nath on Saturday approached Supreme Court against Election commission&#8217;s order of withdrawing his &#8216;star campaigner&#8217; status. The Election Commission on Friday revoked the star campaigner status of Kamal Nath, citing repeated violation of Model Code of Conduct. For repeated violation of Model of Conduct and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":319455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[4370,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328225"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328227,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328225\/revisions\/328227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/319455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}