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Ahead of the Bihar Assembly election, the Election Commission of India (EC) connected Tuesday (October 14, 2025) directed governmental parties to get advertisements pre-certified and asked candidates to pass the canvass assemblage astir their “authentic” societal media accounts portion filing nominations.
The predetermination volition beryllium held successful 2 phases connected November 6 and 11, followed by counting of votes connected November 14.
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In a connection connected Tuesday, the EC said it has issued orders connected October 9, requiring each registered, and nationalist and State governmental party, and each contesting campaigner to use to the Media Certification and Monitoring Committee (MCMC) for pre-certification of each governmental advertisements connected physics media, including societal media, earlier publication.
The connection said that MCMCs person been constituted astatine the territory and State levels for pre-certification of governmental advertisements arsenic per the prescribed guidelines and nary governmental advertisements are to beryllium released to immoderate internet-based media oregon websites, including societal media websites, by governmental parties oregon candidates without pre-certification from the respective MCMC.
MCMCs shall support a strict vigil connected suspected cases of paid quality successful the media and instrumentality suitable action.
The canvass sheet said that bulk SMS-es and audio messages during the 48-hour ‘silence period’, which starts earlier the decision of voting, is prohibited.
“Further, fixed the penetration of societal media successful the electoral landscape, candidates person besides been instructed to stock the details of their authentic societal media accounts astatine the clip of filing nomination,” it said.
The governmental parties should besides taxable a connection of expenditure incurred connected campaigning done internet, including societal media websites, to the EC wrong 75 days of the completion of the election. Such expenditure, among different things, shall see payments made to net companies and websites for carrying advertisements and besides campaign-related expenditure connected improvement of contented and operational expenditure incurred to support their societal media accounts.
