Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], March 10 (ANI): Weighing in on the surprise resignation of Election Commissioner Arun Goel barely weeks ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday labelled the poll panel as an “extended branch of the BJP”. Speaking to the reporters here on Sunday, Raut hit out at the ruling party at the Centre saying that the Election Commission has been ‘privatised’ by the BJP. “The Election Commission has become an extended branch of the BJP. It is no longer the same election watchdog as it was during the tenure of (former chief election commissi…