New Delhi, April 20: In the recent development to a biopic featuring the life story of Narendra Modi, the EC have finalised its stand on whether the ban imposed should continue or not. The EC is to submit the said stand in a sealed envelope after watching the movie on Wednesday.
Officials, drawn from the poll panel's model code and legal divisions, had followed the directions of the Supreme Court to go through the biopic. The EC was to inform the top court of its stand on Friday. But the court's registry was closed on account of Good Friday.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi also directed the poll panel to submit its decision to the court in a sealed cover and said it will consider the matter on April 22. Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for the film's producers, who challenged the EC's ban on its release, said the poll panel banned it just by watching the promo and did not watch the full movie.
Acting on complaints by political parties, including the Congress, the poll panel had asserted that any biopic material with the potential to disturb the level playing field should not be displayed in areas where Model Code of Conduct was in force.
The said film showcases Modi's remarkable courage, wisdom, patience, dedication to his people, his acumen as a political strategist, his leadership that inspired a thousand social changes in Gujarat and later India.
It traces his childhood in the 1950s to his meteoric rise in the corridors of politics, as a four-time serving Chief Minister. The film culminates in Modi's overcoming all the obstacles to create and lead one of the most fascinating and successful election campaigns in world politics in 2013-14.