Guwahati, Mar 29: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has issued notices to eight newspapers of Assam which carried an commercial of the BJP within the type of a headline claiming that the social gathering will win all 47 seats the place elections have been held within the first part on Saturday, officers mentioned. The notices have been despatched to the newspapers following a grievance filed by the Congress alleging that the commercial violated a directive of the ECI, the mannequin code of conduct for the election and the Representation of People Act, 1951.
In the notices, Assam Chief Electoral Officer Nitin Khade requested the newspapers to ship a report clarifying their place to the Commission by 7 pm on Monday. The newspapers have additionally submitted their studies which have been forwarded to the ECI, officers mentioned.
The Congress’ Assam unit had filed a grievance in opposition to Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, social gathering president J P Nadda and state unit chief Ranjeet Kumar Dass together with eight main newspapers, which revealed on Sunday an commercial within the format of newspaper headlines claiming the social gathering’s win in all seats for which polls have been held on March 27. The grievance was filed on the Dispur police station on Sunday evening.
The state Congress’ authorized division chairman Niran Borah mentioned, “This is a blatant violation of the Model Code of Conduct (MCC), Representation of People Act, 1951, relevant instructions and media policies issued by the Election Commission of India, by the leaders and members of the BJP, who after realising that their defeat is inevitable has resorted to desperate illegal and unconstitutional methods to influence the voters across the state.” The ads have been introduced in a fashion on the entrance web page of the newspapers to “prejudice the mind of the voters and this deliberate, malicious and mala fide set of advertisements is in clear violation of Section 126A of the Representation of People Act, 1951, which is punishable by two years of imprisonment and fine”, he added. The ECI had prohibited the dissemination of any type of prediction/dissemination of stories associated to election outcomes of Assam between 7 am of March 27 and seven:30 pm of April 29, Borah mentioned.
The publication of huge scale ads by the BJP “falsely predicting the outcome of the current assembly election in their favour also amounts to direct violation of the instruction”, he mentioned. The state Congress had filed a grievance with the Assam Chief Electoral Officer and the AICC with the ECI in opposition to the publication of the ads on Sunday urging instant motion in opposition to the BJP and the newspapers.
Congress state president Ripun Bora on Monday accused the BJP leaders of “being confused” and attempting to mislead the folks of Assam and conceal their failure by placing up fabricated ads in newspapers claiming that they’ll win all of the seats in Upper Assam. If the BJP leaders so positive of profitable all of the seats within the first part, why did they should spend crores of rupees by placing up ads in newspapers, Bora mentioned in a press convention right here.
The main English, Assamese, Hindi and Bengali newspapers that revealed the ads embody The Assam Tribune, Asomiya Pratidin, Aamar Asom, Niyomia Barta, Asomiya Khabor, Dainik Asam, Dainik Jugasankha and Dainik Purvodaya. Elections to 39 seats might be held within the second part on April 1 and 40 within the third and closing part on April six.
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