'Polls were postponed after Rajiv Gandhi's death': PM Modi's counter on 'no level-playing field' charges
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in an exclusive interview on SALAAM INDIA show with India TV's Chairman and Editor-in-Chief Rajat Sharma on Thursday, targeted the Opposition leaders over their allegations that they were not provided a 'level-playing field' in the Lok Sabha elections, citing the cancellation of general elections post Congress leader Rajiv Gandhi's death in 1991. When Rajat Sharma asked a question about the Opposition's allegations that two chief ministers and several other Opposition leaders were sent to jail ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, the prime minister rejected the allegations citing an incident happened in 1991. Hitting out at the Congress and other opposition parties for complaining that they have not been given a level-playing field in the election, PM Modi reminded how the then Chief Election Commissioner postponed polling across the country in 1991 for 22 days after Congress leader Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in Sriperumbudur on May 21, 1991, when only one round of polling was over. Also read: 'Pakistan ki taakat ko mai khud check karke aaya hu': PM Modi tells Rajat Sharma in season's biggest interview
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