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Khurshid’s remarks irks EC

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New Delhi: Taking exception to Union Law and Justice Minister Salman Khurshid sticking to his remarks about backward Muslims during campaigning in Uttar Pradesh despite a censure, Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi Saturday sought President Pratibha Patil’s intervention so that polls in the state were conducted in accordance with law.

Quraishi wrote a letter to the President on Saturday that the minister’s fresh remarks had “created a disturbing situation”.

“The commission is perturbed because the undermining of its constitutionally mandated duties has come from the law minister who has a direct responsibility to uphold and strengthen the ECI rather than to denigrate it,” Quraishi said in his letter, referring to Khurshid’s remarks that he will ensure rights to backward Muslims even if he is ‘hanged’ by the poll panel. (IANS)

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