Election Commission asked Congress leader Jairam Ramesh to share detailed information about his allegation that Union Home Minister Amit Shah made calls to 150 district magistrates or collectors ahead of counting of votes. In a letter to Mr Ramesh, Election Commission also clarified that during the period of enforcement of MCC, all officers are under deemed deputation of the Commission and report directly to the Commission for any directions. The Commission said, no district magistrates has reported any such undue influence as alleged by him.

EC added that such public statements by Mr. Ramesh tend to put an element of doubt and thus deserve to be addressed in larger public interest. It also requested him to share details of to whom such calls were allegedly made by the Home Minister along with the factual matrix of the information by 7 pm today to appropriate action in this regard.