Strongly reacting to Bharatiya Janata Party workers pasting stickers of party symbol on houses of beneficiaries of government schemes in recent weeks, UP Congress Legislature Party leader Aradhana Mishra Mona lashed out saying that the ruling party does not care about the model code of conduct and was treating the Election Commission of India as a frontal outfit.

“Such acts by the BJP are definitely a murder of democracy and a clear violation of the model code of conduct. The Election Commission of India should take up this matter seriously. In Prayagraj, stickers are being pasted on the houses of the beneficiaries of Central and state government schemes by BJP members without their consent. This is a clear violation of the rules,” Mishra said in a statement issued in Lucknow on Monday.

The Congress leader said that if the ECI did not take action on such a serious issue, then it should be believed that the poll panel was indirectly helping the BJP and its impartiality would come under a cloud.

“It is unprecedented that a photo has been put on the help distributed among the poor by the state and Central government. The ruling party even carried out its publicity on the certificate of Covid vaccination, by affixing a picture of the prime minister. Whatever things are provided to the public by the government is not a favour on them, it is the government’s duty. It is the duty of the elected government that the tax paid by the public is properly utilised and the benefits of government schemes reach the person standing at the last rung of the society,” she said.

Mishra further said, “If the BJP government is terming providing facilities as its achievement, then it should also take responsibility for the fact that 13.5 crore people have come below the poverty line during its tenure. As per a NITI Aayog report, 37.79 per cent of the people in Uttar Pradesh live below the poverty line. Besides, unemployment is at its highest level in the last 45 years. Crime, especially against women, has touched its nadir under the BJP misrule.”