Don't need UN to lecture us on fair polls: EAM

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday rejected recent comments made by a senior United Nations official on fairness of elections in India, saying that he does not need the multilateral organisation to tell that polls in the country should be “free and fair”, PTI reported.

On March 28, Stéphane Dujarric, the spokesperson for the UN secretary-general, said that the organisation hopes that the Lok Sabha elections in India are held in a free and fair atmosphere.

“What we very much hope that in India, as in any country that is having elections, that everyone’s rights are protected, including political and civil rights, and everyone is able to vote in an atmosphere that is free and fair,” Dujarric.