Behrampore Congress candidate Adhir Chowdhury has approached the Election Commission of India against his Trinamool Congress adversary and former India cricketer Yusuf Pathan for “misusing” during his election campaign the images of the 2011 ICC cricket World Cup featuring a host of Indian players.
Chowdhury who is also the Pradesh Congress president in his complaint alleged that Pathan was using the pictures of the winning moments of the World Cup in the banners and posters where he is featured alongside the greats like Sachin Tendulkar.
“Using the photographs of World Cup winning event and that too with other cricketers is a gross violation of the model code of conduct,” Chowdhury said adding “winning a cricket match at the international level is something you do for your country and that has nothing to do with your political affiliations and your election campaigns which you do for yourself and for your own party … besides the other players that feature in the posters and banners may not be the
supporters of the TMC but you are using them for your campaign … this must stop at once …and so I have requested the ECI to look into the matter.”
When asked to comment on the issue TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh said he was not aware of the things at Behrampore and that his party would do whatever the EC would say.
