EC Bars BJP Candidate From Tiloi Mayankeshwar Sharan Singh From Campaigning For 24-Hours

Lucknow, February 23 (TNA) The Election Commission has barred Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Tiloi, Mayankeshwar Sharan Singh from campaigning for 24-hours. He will not be able to campaign till 8 am on February 23 at 8 am on February 24. The Election Commission has taken this action against the BJP candidate in the hate speech case.

Due to this action of the Election Commission, Mayankeshwar Sharan Singh will not be also able to attend the election meeting of CM Yogi Adityanath to be held in Tiloi on Wednesday.

In fact, in a speech during a street meeting in Tiloi area, BJP candidate Mayankeshwar Sharan Singh compared SP candidate Mohammad Naeem to Babar.

Singh had further said, about 492 years ago, a similar goonda-rogue came to India, who demolished the temple where Lord Ram was born in Ayodhya district and made it a mosque. In these 492 years, we fought about 67 battles, in which lakhs of Hindus were martyred, but we could not get the temple back. After the battle with the court, now a temple is being built there.