BJP campaign committee chairperson Vijay Kumar Malhotra said: ``The EC did not consult us or hear our part of the story before the decision was taken. So the EC should consider our protest letter and revise its ex-parte decision.''

But the EC upheld the Congress charge against the BJP. Deploring the advertisement, EC secretary K.J. Rao said in a letter to BJP General Secretary Venkaiah Naidu that the advertisement was in clear violation of Paragraph 1(2) of the code. Malhotra, however, said there was no violation of the model code of conduct in the poster and ``factual position'' was presented in the advertisement. ``No Congress leader was named in the poster. It is a fact that Dawood aide Romesh Sharma and Sushil Sharma, who was implicated in the Naina Sahni murder case, are lodged in Tihar jail''.