The Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) has lodged a complaint against the allegations and visualisations of Congress party and its leaders in a derogatory manner in social media by the BJP on a Facebook page called "Manipur with Modi", terming it "baseless".
The complaint was lodged by general secretary (admn) Hareshwar Goshwami on Thursday to the chairman of State Level Media Certification and Monitoring Committee Office of the CEO, requesting for immediate ban or blocking of the said page.
The complaint mentioned that there are a lot of baseless allegations and visualisations in a derogatory manner of the Congress party and its leaders, including former chief minister O Ibobi Singh, MLA O Surjakumar and many other Congress party candidates on the Facebook page.
It stated, "This unbecoming act of the BJP will definitely affect and influence the morale of the voters and such obnoxious propaganda at an online platform is against the spirit of free and fair elections in the state...The malicious, unethical and diabolical propaganda by abusing the authority of the party in power is against maintaining a level playing field which is assured by the ECI".
The complaint requested to the committee to immediately monitor the Facebook page and verify the veracity of the complaint and take punitive action against the Facebook page, its admins and immediately ban or block the page to enable to bring about a conducive atmosphere to conduct free and fair elections in the state in the larger interest of democracy, it added.
