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| Cooperate for free, fair polls in J&K: CEO to political parties | | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 7: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Electoral Officer Umang Narula today sought cooperation from all the political parties of the state for the conduct of free and fair polls in the state.
He asked the parties to abide by the model code of conduct of the Election Commission of India (ECI) during the five-phase Lok Sabha Elections in the State.
Requesting representatives of political parties to co-operate with the officials and strictly adhere to guidelines of ECI regarding poll expenditure, publicity, Election Manifesto, campaigning, Narula chairing a meeting of all political parties here this evening said, "the Commission has made elaborate arrangements for ensuring effective implementation of the MCC Guidelines and re-emphasised that the instructions issued in this regard should be read and understood by all Political Parties, contesting candidates and their agents, representatives, to avoid any misgivings or lack of information or understanding and interpretation".
He said that Expenditure Observers would keep a close watch on election expenditure of the candidates and to ensure that no inducement is offered to the electors during the entire election process for exercise of their franchise.
"The political parties for any kind of publicity during the elections including advertisements in the form of posters, TV Ads, Paper Ads etc will all require a prior certification," said Narula adding that the Commission has created Media Certification and Monitoring Committees to deal with any Paid News and other media related violations, besides carrying out the existing provisions of pre-certification of political advertisements.
The CEO added that to facilitate the voters the Commission has directed that Voter Slip along with Photo will be distributed to all enrolled voters by the DEO and these Voter Slips will also be accepted as identity proof of voters at Polling Stations.
"All electoral rolls will be exhibited at the polling stations on March 9 for addition of any left out voters to the list," he said and asked for co-operation of all political parties for conduct of a free and fair election process in the State. |
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