The Election Commission said on Friday that the BJP failed to provide adequate documents to prove the allegations it made in various advertisements against the Congress government in Karnataka in the run-up to state Assembly elections.
The BJP had targeted Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and various schemes introduced by the Congress government in a series of television and online advertisements. The advertisements regularly appeared on television channels and also on YouTube.
A state-level committee set up by the Election Commission dismissed the BJP’s arguments that the party’s intention was “to bring public attention to the government’s omissions”. The BJP had insisted that the advertisements be aired without modifications.