AAP leaders to meet EC today regarding ban on party campaign song

April 30, 2024

New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party’s top leaders will be going to the office of the Election Commission today. Top leaders will be meeting the Election Commissioner regarding ban on party’s campaign song.

Earlier Party leader and Delhi Minister Atishi on Sunday said that  Election Commission has banned the Lok Sabha election campaign song of the party for criticising central agencies.

This song was written by party MLA Dilip Pandey. Along with this, AAP has termed this step of the commission as the dictatorship of the Centre.

Let us tell you that recently, party launched its campaign song. Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia were also seen in this two-minute-long promotional song ahead of Lok Sabha elections.

Atishi said the poll body banned their campaign song allegedly for portraying directors of the Central Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement Directorate in a bad light. “The ECI does not object when the ED, CBI, and other cases on political leaders are shut as soon as they join the BJP, but when we mention that in our campaign song, the ECI objects to it. ECI says that if you talk about dictatorship, it is a criticism of the ruling party. This means that ECI also believes that the BJP is a dictatorship government,” Atishi said. 

Modify contents not Ban: EC

In an official statement, the Delhi CEO said, “It is informed that during the review and scrutiny of the advertisement submitted by the Aam Aadmi Party, the Media Pre Certification Committee headed by the Joint Chief Electoral Officer, Delhi made certain observations regarding the advertisement/creative with reference to various provisions/guidelines stipulated by ECI.”

CEO further added, “The said creative/advertisement was returned along with the observations with the request to modify the contents of the creative as per the Advertising Codes prescribed,” it said.”