UNC Chair­man Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo is com­plain­ing the Coun­cil for Re­spon­si­ble Po­lit­i­cal Be­hav­iour, which the par­ty with­drew from in Jan­u­ary, has "no le­gal au­thor­i­ty" over its af­fairs and should re­frain from any com­men­tary about its con­duct.

It's al­so  ac­cus­ing the Coun­cil of "elec­tion in­ter­fer­ence," warn­ing that any ref­er­ence to the par­ty in the Coun­cil’s pub­lic state­ments could mis­lead vot­ers and un­fair­ly in­flu­ence the up­com­ing elec­tion.

In a let­ter ad­dressed to the Coun­cil's Chair­man, Dr. Bish­nu Ra­goonath, the UNC ob­jects to re­marks made by the Coun­cil in the me­dia on March 18, 2025, re­gard­ing the mon­i­tor­ing of po­lit­i­cal par­ties that are not sig­na­to­ries to the Coun­cil. The UNC states that it with­drew from the Coun­cil on Jan­u­ary 30 and ad­vis­es that the Coun­cil "not make ref­er­ence to the UNC in any way, shape or form, as this would amount to elec­tion in­ter­fer­ence."

The par­ty fur­ther ar­gues that the Coun­cil "is not a Statu­to­ry or of­fi­cial body and, ac­cord­ing­ly, has no le­gal au­thor­i­ty over our par­ty." It warns that any state­ments from the Coun­cil re­fer­ring to the UNC could be "in­ter­pret­ed by the pub­lic as an of­fi­cial or qua­si-of­fi­cial state­ment" re­gard­ing the par­ty’s elec­toral con­duct, which "may in­flu­ence vot­er be­hav­iour ac­cord­ing­ly." The UNC as­serts that this "would be mis­lead­ing and would amount to elec­tion in­ter­fer­ence."

The Coun­cil of­fi­cial­ly an­nounced on March 19 that it had be­gun mon­i­tor­ing the 2025 elec­tion cam­paign, tasked with eval­u­at­ing "ALL po­lit­i­cal par­ties, can­di­dates, and their sup­port­ers" for ad­her­ence to eth­i­cal stan­dards. The Coun­cil, which has op­er­at­ed since 2014, in­vites the pub­lic to re­port breach­es of its Code of Eth­i­cal Po­lit­i­cal Con­duct and pub­lish­es week­ly up­dates on its find­ings.