The Election Commission has held that Congress government in Haryana led by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, had not violated the model code of conduct while clearing the land deal between Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra and real estate firm DLF.

The EC’s decision follows two reports it received from the Haryana government on Tuesday – one from its Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary, Town & Country Planning Department, and the other from its Director, Consolidation of Holdings.

Citing these reports, the EC, in a late last night response to BJP election cell’s national convener R Ramakrishna who had complained in the matter, said, it does not seem to be any violation of the model code of conduct by the government of Haryana in the land deal matter after coming into force of the model code of conduct from 12th September.