Declining to reveal the contents of the reply, party spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi said, "We have filed an appropriate and detailed response. We are certainly not sharing it with the press".

Singhvi, as a senior advocate, was authorised by Gandhi to file the reply. "All I can assure you is that detailed reasons have been given to demonstrate that there is absolutely no question of violation of the model code of conduct".

The AICC had suggested on Monday that Gandhi did not not name Narendra Modi, but had the entire state administration, including the Chief Minister, in mind when she had made those remarks.

The party has been dismissing as "outragerous" the attempts to equate Gandhi with Modi and has been insisting that the model code of conduct had not been violated by the as she had only pointed to "political failures of the government".