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District Election Officer and Collector S. Kandasamy connected Monday (March 16, 2026) instructed stakeholders to strictly adhere to the Election Commission’s guidelines, and emphasised that immoderate bulk organisation of gifts, suspicious fiscal transactions, printing of objectionable material, oregon antithetic bulk purchases, peculiarly successful jewellery shops, indispensable beryllium reported to predetermination authorities without delay.
Chairing a gathering with owners of matrimony halls, lodges, printing presses and jewellery shops astatine the Collectorate connected the enforcement of the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) for the forthcoming Assembly elections, helium said the absorption was connected ensuring free, just and transparent behaviour of elections successful the district.
He issued circumstantial instructions to lodge and matrimony hallway owners, including restrictions connected accommodating suspicious outsiders from 48 hours earlier polling until the completion of counting. Proper attraction of impermanent records and anterior support for events were made mandatory. The usage of premises for distributing freebies oregon nutrient items successful usurpation of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, was prohibited.
Printing property owners were directed to guarantee that each printed worldly carried the printer’s details and the fig of copies, and to refrain from printing contented that incited unit oregon defamed individuals. They were besides instructed to support records and get indispensable approvals earlier printing election-related material.
Jewellery store owners were cautioned against supplying bulk quantities of tiny items and asked to study specified requests immediately. Violations would invitation enactment nether the applicable provisions of the law, officials said. The Collector said annadhanam successful places of worship would beryllium permitted lone with anterior support and taxable to strict monitoring, and should not impact immoderate governmental activity.
District Revenue Officer S. Santhakumar, Personal Assistants to the Collector Thenmozhi (General) and Maheswari (Elections), Tahsildar (Elections) Shanmugasundaram, and different officials took portion successful the meeting.
The Collector besides inspected the media certification and monitoring committee established at the Collectorate.
