Saffron colour ‘Namo’ food packets greet voters at Noida polling station; EC seeks report

After Namo Chai
NAMO Cap
NAMO Merchandise
Namo TV
It is time for Namo food packete
That too in polling team's car pic.twitter.com/f6peG72xER

— Atul (@secular_arrow) April 11, 2019

However, Gautam Buddh Nagar’s SSP rejected suggestions that the ‘Namo’ food packets had any link to the Bharatiya Janata Party.

“There is some misinformation being spread that some policemen have been distributed food from a political party. This is absolutely wrong. At the local level some food packets were procured from Namo Food Shop and not from any political party. Some people are spreading wrong and politically motivated rumours. And there is no official order to procure food from any particular food outlet,” said SSP Vaibhav Krishna.

According to News18, the District Magistrate also said that it was “not a big issue.” “Will officials have food or not? Possibly the name of the shop was written over it. No other intention should be read into it," said the DM.

When reporters reached out to Namo Foods, a staffer said, “We did not supply any food packets. Our shop is closed since Wednesday evening. We don’t know about any order.”