EC working under pressure: Modi

Modi took a jibe at the local administration and election authorities, saying the talk of security risks can't be believed as there appeared no such risks in Rohaniya which is just 12km away.

He also claimed “union Home and Finance Ministers have themselves said that there was no security threat to Modi”.  BJP wanted to hold the rally at Beniabagh locality in the heart of Varanasi while Rohania is a rural assembly constituency outside main Varanasi city but within the Lok Sabha constituency. Both the areas have sizable population of Muslims.

Modi said the “Election Comnmission should do introspection. I don't know under whose pressure they are working”.