NEW DELHI: Election officials on Monday inspected Congress leader Rahul Gandhi‘s helicopter just after he landed in Tamil Nadu.
Gandhi had traveled from Mysuru to Nilgiris via helicopter. The Congress leader was en route to Wayanad, his parliamentary constituency in Kerala, where he has several campaign activities planned, including a public meeting.
Gandhi is contesting the April 26 Lok Sabha polls from Wayanad, aiming for a consecutive term.
This comes a day after the Trinamool Congress complained to Election Commission about an “income tax search” of a helicopter undergoing preflight checks at Kolkata’s Behala Flying Club ahead of MP and party general secretary Abhishek Banerjee’s scheduled campaign trip.
TMC portrayed the search as another example of a “nexus” between EC and BJP. “EC and BJP chose to deploy minions from I-T department to search and raid my chopper and security personnel,” Abhishek said in a statement on X, adding that nothing was found.
I-T sources denied there was “any such search or enforcement action” against Abhishek. But PTI quoted unnamed officials that “an I-T team was sent in a routine manner to collect information of the arrival of a helicopter at Behala Flying Club to fulfil its mandate of coordinating with law enforcement agencies to en sure free and fair elections”.
Gandhi had traveled from Mysuru to Nilgiris via helicopter. The Congress leader was en route to Wayanad, his parliamentary constituency in Kerala, where he has several campaign activities planned, including a public meeting.
Gandhi is contesting the April 26 Lok Sabha polls from Wayanad, aiming for a consecutive term.
This comes a day after the Trinamool Congress complained to Election Commission about an “income tax search” of a helicopter undergoing preflight checks at Kolkata’s Behala Flying Club ahead of MP and party general secretary Abhishek Banerjee’s scheduled campaign trip.
TMC portrayed the search as another example of a “nexus” between EC and BJP. “EC and BJP chose to deploy minions from I-T department to search and raid my chopper and security personnel,” Abhishek said in a statement on X, adding that nothing was found.
I-T sources denied there was “any such search or enforcement action” against Abhishek. But PTI quoted unnamed officials that “an I-T team was sent in a routine manner to collect information of the arrival of a helicopter at Behala Flying Club to fulfil its mandate of coordinating with law enforcement agencies to en sure free and fair elections”.