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Ahead of the Bihar Assembly elections, the Election Commission of India (ECI) connected Tuesday said that nary governmental party, candidate, organisation oregon idiosyncratic would beryllium permitted to people advertisements successful people media connected the canvass time and the time preceding it unless the contented has been pre-certified by the Media Certification and Monitoring Committee (MCMC).
For the Bihar polls scheduled successful 2 phases connected November 6 and 11, the regularisation volition use connected November 5 and 6 for Phase I, and November 10 and 11 for Phase II. The Commission has besides announced byelections to 8 different Assembly constituencies.
“Applicants seeking pre-certification for governmental advertisements successful people media indispensable use to the MCMC not aboriginal than 2 days anterior to the projected day of work of the advertisement,” the ECI said successful a statement.
The Commission said the measurement was intended to guarantee a just run situation and forestall misinformation oregon last-minute manipulation done unverified content.
To facilitate timely approval, MCMCs astatine the State and territory levels person been directed to analyse and pre-certify specified advertisements expeditiously.
Last week, the canvass assemblage instructed governmental parties to get pre-certification for each advertisements and directed candidates to state their “authentic” societal media accounts portion filing nominations.
The ECI, done its October 9 order, made it mandatory for each recognised nationalist and State parties, arsenic good arsenic contesting candidates, to question anterior support from the MCMC for each governmental advertisements connected physics and societal media earlier publication.
The MCMC besides monitors suspected cases of paid quality and is empowered to instrumentality due enactment successful specified instances.
Additionally, the ECI reiterated that the dissemination of bulk SMSs and audio messages is prohibited during the 48-hour ‘silence period’ earlier the decision of polling.
