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Khurshid's remarks: Poll panel seeks president's intervention
Saturday February 11, 2012 10:16:09 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Taking
exception to union Law and Justice Minister Salman Khurshid
sticking to his remarks about backward Muslims during campaigning
in Uttar Pradesh despite a censure, Chief Election Commissioner
S.Y. Quraishi Saturday sought President Pratibha Patil's
intervention so that polls in the state were conducted in
accordance with law.
Quraishi wrote a letter to the president Saturday that the
minister's fresh remarks had "created a disturbing situation".
"The full commission hence deliberated on the matter in an
emergency meeting this (Saturday) afternoon while being concerned
about the fact that Khurshid's action could vitiate free and fair
poll in Uttar Pradesh," the letter said.
"The commission is perturbed because the undermining of its
constitutionally mandated duties has come from the law minister
who has a direct responsibility to uphold and strengthen the ECI
rather than to denigrate it," Quraishi said in his letter.
"The Election Commission of India finds it necessary and
unavoidable to turn to you at this juncture for immediate and
decisive intervention so that the ongoing election to the Uttar
Pradesh assembly is conducted, and this commission discharges its
functions in accordance with the Constitution and the law," the
letter said.
Khurshid triggered a fresh controversy Friday evening with his
remarks that he will ensure rights to "pasmanda (backward
Muslims)" even if he is "hanged" by the poll panel.
The poll panel had censured Khurshid over his promise to give nine
percent quota to minorities, including backward Muslims, within 27
percent reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) if the
Congress is voted to power in Uttar Pradesh, saying it was
violation of model code of conduct.
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