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EC to seek details of Niti Aayog vice-chairman's remarks against Congress over minimum income promise

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The Election Commission has reportedly written a letter to NITI Aayog vice-chairman Rajiv Kumar asking him to explain his remarks criticising the Congress party over its pre-poll minimum income guarantee promise. Election Commission sources said that since Kumar is part of the "bureaucratic executive", such remarks might violate the Model Code of Conduct.

"It is not a case of one politician attacking the other or one party attacking the other," an EC functionary told PTI.  Kumar had accused the Congress of promising the moon to win elections. He had also tweeted, saying "The proposed income guarantee scheme fails the economics test, fiscal discipline test and execution test".

In another tweet, Kumar had claimed that, "true to its past record of promising the moon to win elections, Congress President announces a scheme that will bust fiscal discipline, create strong incentives against work and which will never be implemented."