Cancel Mungantiwar’s LS candidacy for scurrilous comments, Congress writes to ECI

Mumbai, April 9 (IANS) The Maharashtra Congress on Tuesday demanded that the candidature of BJP nominee and state minister Sudhir Mungantiwar be cancelled for his scurrilous and defamatory remarks at a public rally in Chandrapur, made in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday.In a formal complaint to the Maharashtra Chief Electoral Officer, Congress spokesperson Atul Londhe referred to Mungantiwar’s speech in which he used inflammatory language with derogatory remarks against the Congress intended to ‘spread hatred’.Londhe cited Mungantiwar’s ‘hate speech’ that contained not only offensive words with instances of denigrating the dignity of women, contributing to a hostile and disrespectful environment towards women in