NEW DELHI, India, March 30 (NNN-PTI) – India’s election commission has given a clean chit to Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, on his surprise address to the nation announcing successful test-firing of an anti-satellite missile, officials said today, Saturday.
The poll panel said, Modi’s announcement did not violate provisions of the model code of conduct, that came into effect in the country, on March 10.
“The poll panel took the decision, based on the report of a committee of officers, which concluded that the Prime Minister’s address did not violate the provisions for the party in power, in the poll code,” an official said.
India on Wednesday shot down one of its satellites in space, with an anti-satellite missile, thus becoming the fourth nation in the world to have achieved such feat after the United States, Russia and China.– NNN-PTI
