Senior Congress Leader Kapil Sibal mocked Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora on the clean chits given to PM Narendra Modi during Lok Sabha election campaigning.

In a poem that was tweeted from his twitter handle, Sibal took a jibe at CEC Sunil Arora over his statement that Election Commission members were not clones.

"To: Sunil Arora (CEC)...Your legendary clean chits showed the courage of two drones, you were eyes and ears of PM, and not Lavasa`s clones, steadfastly you held on, to what you believed was right, for the Model Code of Conduct, was not within your sight. Democracy laments !" Kapil Sibal tweeted.

To :
Sunil Arora ( CEC )

Your legendary clean chits
showed the courage of two drones
you were eyes and ears of PM
and not Lavasas clones

steadfastly you held on
to what you believed was right
for the Model Code of Conduct
was not within your sight

Democracy laments !

— Kapil Sibal (@KapilSibal) May 19, 2019

It comes after CEC Sunil Arora on Saturday issued a statement, and said that diversion of views was not new among the members of the Election Commission and that they not expected to be clones of each other.

"The three members of EC are not expected to be template or clones of each other. There have been so many times in the past when there has been a vast diversion of views as it can, and should be," Sunil Arora had said.

Sunil Arora described as "unsavory" and "avoidable" reports that fellow commissioner Ashok Lavasa has decided to recuse himself from meetings related to model code violations till he is not allowed to record his dissent.

Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa had expressed dissent over clean chits for four speeches made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and one by BJP president Amit Shah.

Ashok Lavasa had told CEC Sunil Arora that his "participation in the deliberations of the Commission becomes meaningless" since his minority decisions "go unrecorded".

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