<p class="title">The Congress urged the Election Commission (EC) Tuesday to issue a notice to <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/assembly-elections-2018/telangana-assembly-polls-2018/shah-misleads-debunked-claims-706225.html" target="_blank">BJP chief Amit Shah for a statement he had made in Telangana</a>, which the opposition party alleged was aimed at creating a communal atmosphere in the poll-bound state.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Senior Congress leaders Ahmed Patel, Kamal Nath and Kapil Sibal met EC officials and raised a number of issues, ranging from EVM-related complaints in Madhya Pradesh and Shah's statement to the arrest of the opposition party's working president in Telangana.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Shah's statement in Telangana was absolutely false and misrepresented some points of the Congress's poll manifesto in the southern state, Sibal told reporters after meeting the EC officials.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The statement of the BJP chief was aimed at creating a communal atmosphere, he alleged, adding that the Congress had urged the poll watchdog to issue a notice to Shah for his remarks.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sibal said the other issue they raised with the EC was of the arrest of Telangana Congress working president A Revanth Reddy, who had called a "bandh" to protest against Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief and the state's caretaker Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao's public meeting in the Kodangal Assembly constituency.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"He (Reddy) was arrested at 3 am and was not told why was he arrested. We requested (the EC officials) that such arrests should not be made during the time of elections," he added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Reddy was taken into preventive custody early on Tuesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The other issue that was raised with the EC was of the Telangana chief minister calling a cabinet meeting and giving directions, Sibal said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Nath said the issue of complaints related to electronic voting machines (EVMs)at various places in Madhya Pradesh was also raised with the EC officials.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"We have demanded that action be taken against the officials at these places, from where such complaints are coming," the Madhya Pradesh Congress chief said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sibal said they cited examples such as EVMs being transported in private school buses without registration numbers.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Another issue that was raised was that the second round of counting of votes should start only after the process for the first round was over, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">While Assembly elections have already been held in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Mizoram, Rajasthan and Telangana will go to polls on December 7 and the results for all the five states will be announced on December 11. </p>
<p class="title">The Congress urged the Election Commission (EC) Tuesday to issue a notice to <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/assembly-elections-2018/telangana-assembly-polls-2018/shah-misleads-debunked-claims-706225.html" target="_blank">BJP chief Amit Shah for a statement he had made in Telangana</a>, which the opposition party alleged was aimed at creating a communal atmosphere in the poll-bound state.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Senior Congress leaders Ahmed Patel, Kamal Nath and Kapil Sibal met EC officials and raised a number of issues, ranging from EVM-related complaints in Madhya Pradesh and Shah's statement to the arrest of the opposition party's working president in Telangana.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Shah's statement in Telangana was absolutely false and misrepresented some points of the Congress's poll manifesto in the southern state, Sibal told reporters after meeting the EC officials.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The statement of the BJP chief was aimed at creating a communal atmosphere, he alleged, adding that the Congress had urged the poll watchdog to issue a notice to Shah for his remarks.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sibal said the other issue they raised with the EC was of the arrest of Telangana Congress working president A Revanth Reddy, who had called a "bandh" to protest against Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief and the state's caretaker Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao's public meeting in the Kodangal Assembly constituency.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"He (Reddy) was arrested at 3 am and was not told why was he arrested. We requested (the EC officials) that such arrests should not be made during the time of elections," he added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Reddy was taken into preventive custody early on Tuesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The other issue that was raised with the EC was of the Telangana chief minister calling a cabinet meeting and giving directions, Sibal said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Nath said the issue of complaints related to electronic voting machines (EVMs)at various places in Madhya Pradesh was also raised with the EC officials.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"We have demanded that action be taken against the officials at these places, from where such complaints are coming," the Madhya Pradesh Congress chief said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sibal said they cited examples such as EVMs being transported in private school buses without registration numbers.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Another issue that was raised was that the second round of counting of votes should start only after the process for the first round was over, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">While Assembly elections have already been held in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Mizoram, Rajasthan and Telangana will go to polls on December 7 and the results for all the five states will be announced on December 11. </p>