Ballot Frame Problems Notices To Assam Newspapers Over BJP Commercial
Elections to 39 seats can be held in the second one segment on April 1 (Document)
Guwahati:
The Election Fee of India (ECI) has issued notices to 8 newspapers of Assam which carried an commercial of the BJP within the type of a headline claiming that the party will win all 47 seats the place elections had been held within the first segment on Saturday, officers mentioned.
The notices had been despatched to the newspapers following a grievance filed by means of the Congress alleging that the commercial violated a directive of the ECI, the style code of habits for the election and the Illustration of Folks Act, 1951.
Within the notices, Assam Leader Electoral Officer Nitin Khade requested the newspapers to ship a file clarifying their place to the Fee by means of 7 pm on Monday.
The newspapers have additionally submitted their reviews that have been forwarded to the ECI, officers mentioned.
The Congress” Assam unit had filed a grievance towards Leader Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, party president J P Nadda and state unit leader Ranjeet Kumar Dass along side 8 main newspapers, which printed on Sunday an commercial within the structure of newspaper headlines claiming the party’s win in all seats for which polls had been hung on March 27.
The grievance used to be filed on the Dispur police station on Sunday night time.
The state Congress” criminal division chairman Niran Borah mentioned, “This can be a blatant violation of the Type Code of Behavior (MCC), Illustration of Folks Act, 1951, related directions and media insurance policies issued by means of the Election
Fee of India, by means of the leaders and contributors of the BJP, who after realising that their defeat is inevitable has resorted to determined unlawful and unconstitutional how to affect the citizens around the state.”
The commercials were introduced in a way at the entrance web page of the newspapers to “prejudice the thoughts of the citizens and this planned, malicious and mala fide set of commercials is in transparent violation of Segment 126A of the Illustration of Folks Act, 1951, which is punishable by means of two years of imprisonment and positive”, he added.
The ECI had prohibited the dissemination of any type of prediction/dissemination of reports associated with election result of Assam between 7 am of March 27 and seven:30 pm of April 29, Borah mentioned.
The e-newsletter of huge scale commercials by means of the BJP “falsely predicting the end result of the present meeting election of their favour additionally quantities to direct violation of the instruction”, he mentioned.
The state Congress had filed a grievance with the Assam Leader Electoral Officer and the AICC with the ECI towards the e-newsletter of the commercials on Sunday urging speedy motion towards the BJP and the newspapers.
Congress state president Ripun Bora on Monday accused the BJP leaders of “being puzzled” and seeking to deceive the folk of Assam and conceal their failure by means of striking up
fabricated commercials in newspapers claiming that they’re going to win the entire seats in Higher Assam.
If the BJP leaders so positive of profitable the entire seats within the first segment, why did they have got to spend crores of rupees by means of striking up commercials in newspapers, Bora mentioned in a press convention right here.
The main English, Assamese, Hindi and Bengali newspapers that printed the commercials come with The Assam Tribune, Asomiya Pratidin, Aamar Asom, Niyomia Barta, Asomiya Khabor, Dainik Asam, Dainik Jugasankha and Dainik Purvodaya.
Elections to 39 seats can be held in the second one segment on April 1 and 40 within the 3rd and ultimate segment on April six.
