DHAKA: India’s Election Commission on Sunday issued a notice to Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal for his alleged remark that ‘those who vote for Congress, BJP will commit treachery against God and country’.

The AAP convener during a road show in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, which is scheduled for voting tomorrow, had reportedly said that voting for the Bharatiya Janata Party or Congress is akin to betraying God and the nation.

On Friday, Kejriwal held a road show in the temple town of Uttar Pradesh and took a jibe at BJP's Prime Misterial candidate Narendra Modi’s ‘helicopter’ visit in Varanasi.

Modi had visited the city a day ahed of Kejriwal’s road show.

During his visit, the ex-Delhi CM said that he was confident of his victory with a ‘huge majority’ and accused BJP of trying every tactic including communal and caste politics, as well as ‘violence and bribing media’.

The AAP leader, who is pitted against Modi from Varanasi parliamentary constituency, said ‘people in Varanasi say how will a person who comes in a helicopter for only two hours to campaign, serve us’, reports zeenews.india.com.

BJP had demanded strict action against Kejriwal for allegedly trying to influence the religious feelings of voters.

In its complaint with the Election Commission, Vivek Goyal, national co-convener of BJP legal cell, had lodged a complain against Kejriwal.

Goyal had referred to the AAP leader’s reported remarks that ‘voting for BJP would amount to betraying God’, and accused him of trying to influence the religious feelings of voters.

BDST: 2051 HRS, MAY 11, 2014