NEW DELHI: Those loudest in their threats usually have something to fear, and if the fear is of losing an election, politicians can go to any extent.First Maharashtra deputy CM NCP leader Ajit Pawar was reported to have threatened to deprive a village of water if it didn’t vote for his cousin Supriya Sule, the daughter of NCP chief Sharad Pawar. And on Friday, Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav threatened government schoolteachers in Bulandshahr to either vote for his party or risk losing their jobs. Mulayam Singh has already been slapped with a show-cause notice by the EC.Ajit is now facing a probe ordered by the EC over his alleged threat. Pune collector Saurabh Rao told TOI, “At 5pm, I got instructions from the office of the chief election officer to submit an inquiry report. An inquiry has been ordered.” The complaint to the police was moved by AAP’s Baramati candidate, retired IPS officer Suresh Khopade.If this wasn’t enough, National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah threatened his party’s main rivals, PDP. Talking to reporters after addressing a youth convention at party headquarters in Rajbagh, Farooq said PDP was responsible for the killing of NC workers in south Kashmir.“I wish I had the authority and power and these people (militants) ... I would have carried out hundreds of attacks on them (PDP) but I do not have that power, I do not have these militants,” said Abdullah, the NC candidate for Srinagar Lok Sabha, adding, “The PDP deserves to be taught a lesson.”Meanwhile, UP police lodged an FIR on Friday against a Congress worker caught on camera telling Priyanka Gandhi that he would eliminate AAP’s Lok Sabha candidate Kumar Vishwas for speaking against his leader, Rahul Gandhi. The video shows Priyanka saying, “No, no, don’t talk like that. Come and meet me later at the Munshiganj guesthouse.”Cops were forced to lodge an FIR against Congress functionary Vinod Mishra, who was heard telling Priyanka in a video (which has since gone viral): “Vishwas Rahul bhaiya ke khilaaf bol raha hai. Main usko goli maar dunga (Vishwas is talking against Rahul bhaiya, I will shoot him).”Reacting to this, Vishwas said that instead of reporting the matter to the police, Priyanka called Mishra to the guesthouse. “If I am attacked in the future, the Congress will be responsible,” he said, adding he would also approach the EC against the threat to his life. He was earlier attacked on March 15 during a campaign in Sinduria village of Amethi.AAP workers claimed the cops agreed to register an FIR only after day-long protests by party volunteers, who laid a siege in front of Gauriganj police station. According to AAP volunteers, the police took the application but refused to register an FIR saying there was no actual threat to Vishwas’s life, and that a case would be registered only if suffered an injury in an attack.“We’ve got an application from Vishwas for lodging an FIR against Rahul, Priyanka, Chandrakant Dubey, Vinod Mishra and other Congress workers. We’ll examine it and take appropriate action,” police said.A Congress leader said, “It’s obvious that Priyanka called the man to talk some sense into him. Kumar Vishwas is interested only in cheap publicity.”In Pune, reacting to the Ajit Pawar row, inspector Vilas Bhosale said, “Due process will be followed after preliminary investigations into the complaint.” Ajit Pawar is no stranger to controversy. Last year he had stirred protests for telling farmers agitating against inadequate water in a dam, “If there’s no water in the dam should I urinate into it?”Meanwhile, in UP, the EC held Mulayam had prima facie violated the model code of conduct, and gave him time till Sunday (April 20) evening to send his reply, failing which it will take action.On April 3, while addressing an election rally at Shikarpur Bypass in Bulandshahr, Yadav had said, “As far as shiksha mitras (ad hoc government teachers) are concerned, we have done it (made them permanent)...we have done it, now give your vote. If you do not vote, we’ll withdraw it.”The EC said the provisions of the model code bar a party in power to use its official position for the purposes of its election campaign.