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Showing posts with label Election commission. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Election commission. Show all posts
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Election Commission on Paid news during elections
The Election Commission has been receiving various complaints/references regarding “Paid News” and advertisements on TV/Cable Channels networks owned by political parties or their functionaries/office bearers during the process of elections, thus disturbing the level playing field, as these are not reflected in the candidate’s election expenses account. The Commission vide its guidelines issued on 8th June 201o, 23rd September 2010 and 18th March, 2011 has already put in place a mechanism to deal with the problems of “Paid News”. However, in...