Indore: Congress workers paste ‘desh ka chowkidar chor hai’ stickers on trains

INDORE:

Congress office-bearers

on Wednesday morning pasted stickers with message - ‘Desh Ka Chowkidar Chor Hai’ - on some trains at

Indore railway station

prompting the GRP to book them for defacing

railway property

and illegally crossing tracks.


The railway authorities have also requested the local election office to examine if the act by Congress workers was a violation of

model code of conduct

.

The stickers also carry photographs of AICC president Rahul Gandhi and party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi along with Congress Indore city wing president

Pramod Tandon

, working president Vinay Bakliwal, MPCC secretary Vivek Khandelwal and Indore city spokesperson Girish Joshi. There were two images of Rafale fighter jet at top of the stickers along with logo of Congress Party.

MPCC secretary Khandelwal told TOI that local Congress wing has launched a campaign and pasted stickers on the trains to Gandhi Nagar, Ratlam and Pune.

As the Congressmen, including Khandelwal and Joshi, got off Indore-Ratlam Train after pasting stickers in one of its coaches, a constable deployed at the station gave them a chase but to no avail.

Railway spokesman said, “Acting on a point of two persons entering the yard by crossing the track and dirtying the trains by pasting stickers on it, a case against Khandelwal and Joshi has been registered under section 147 and 166D of the Railway Act. There is a provision of penalty and imprisonment under the said sanctions.”

He added that the district election officer has also been informed about the incident to examine, if the offenders violated the model code of conduct.