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"Muslim CM stand not communal"
Lok Janshakti Party maintains that the party has committed nothing wrong by asking for a Muslim CM.
EC had asked the party chief Ram Vilas Paswan to give his comments on a complaint filed by former BSF director general Prakash Singh.
"We have never appealed for votes on the ground of candidate's religion. So there is no question of promotion or tendency to promote feelings of enmity and hatred between different classes of the citizens of India," James said in his communication to the chief election commissioner.
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James explained: "Had our party put up candidates belonging to a particular community or religion alone and would have appealed to electors to vote them alone, then probably section 123(3) or 3A of Representation of People Act, 1951 might have been attracted."
Citing the case of Bal Thackeray vs Shri Prabhakar Kashinath Kunte & Others, James said the Supreme Court had held that religion forming the basis of appeal to vote or refrain from voting for any person, must be of that candidate for whom the appeal to vote or refrain from voting is made.
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