EC overstepped its brief over Varun: BJP

New Delhi: The BJP Monday charged the Election Commission with being biased in the case of Varun Gandhi, saying that it overstepped its powers.

BJP spokesperson Balbir Punj asked how the Election Commission could take up the role of an investigative agency. If Sanjay Dutt or Jagdish Tytler could contest the election, how Varun could not, he also asked Punj said the Election Commission had to be fair in its judgement but did not say whether the BJP, which had earlier distanced itself from the CDs showing Varun making inflammatory speeches in Pilibhit, would contest the observations of the Election Commission or not.

The Election Commission in an advisory note to the BJP late last night had suggested not to field Varun Gandhi, son of former Union Minister Maneka Gandhi.

"The Election Commission seems to have taken the role of a forensic laboratory," he said, adding that it had not gone into the veracity of the case.

Varun in his reply to the Commission on Friday had stated that the CDs had been doctored.