Can a Prime Minister use a national address during elections to attack the opposition? And what happens when that speech is broadcast on state-funded platforms?
In this episode of Let Me Explain, Pooja Prasanna breaks down the controversy around Narendra Modi’s April 18 address about the Women Reservation bill, during the Model Code of Conduct period.
From repeated references to opposition parties to the use of public broadcasters, we look at what the rules say and what the Election Commission of India could have done.
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Produced by Megha Mukundan, Script by Pooja Prasanna, Camera by Ajay R, Edit by Nikhil Sekhar ET