By May 3, the Election Commission of India had cleared Prime Minister Narendra Modi of six charges of Model Code of Conduct violations that were levelled against him. According to a report in The Indian Express, a few of these decisions were not unanimous and the Election Commission overruled its own officers in giving a clean chit to Modi.
Election Commission’s free pass to Modi has prompted the best of the country’s cartoonists to unleash their creativity.
— Citizen Yogesh Leela Pawar (@powerofyogesh) May 6, 2019
EC! @newssting1 cartoon pic.twitter.com/4Tj5bZCasG
— Satish Acharya (@satishacharya) May 5, 2019
#cartoon @timesofindia #LokSabhaElections2019 #ElectionCommissionOfIndia pic.twitter.com/2CsT748J20
— Sandeep Adhwaryu (@CartoonistSan) May 5, 2019
#ElectionCommission #EC cartoon @DeccanHerald pic.twitter.com/AOrrmqQ9rk
— sajithkumar (@sajithkumar) May 5, 2019
Modi speech gets clean chit from EC! @sifydotcom cartoon pic.twitter.com/dsW44LtYyu
— Satish Acharya (@satishacharya) May 1, 2019
#ElectionCommission #ModelCodeOfConduct #CleanChits #NarendraModi
— MANJUL (@MANJULtoons) May 6, 2019
My #cartoon for @mid_day pic.twitter.com/STKZoJFj4b
Swaraj India President Yogendra Yadav also tweeted a compilation of these cartoons, saying that Chief Election Commission Sunil Arora should have resigned in the wake of this criticism.
Dear Mr Sunil Arora:
— Yogendra Yadav (@_YogendraYadav) May 6, 2019
Anyone with a little self respect or sense of shame would have resigned after recognising himself in these cartoons.@ECISVEEP @SpokespersonECI pic.twitter.com/exlmJA8dSc
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