The Election Commission of India has issued notices to eight newspapers in Assam for publishing an advertisement for the Bharatiya Janata P...
The Election Commission of India has issued notices to eight newspapers in Assam for publishing an advertisement for the Bharatiya Janata Party in the form of front page headlines, which claimed that the party will win all 47 seats that went to polls in the first phase of state elections on Saturday, PTI reported on Sunday.
The notices were sent to the newspapers after the Congress complained that the advertisement violated the Model Code of Conduct. The party urged the poll panel to take immediate action against the newspapers and BJP.
The Congress’ Assam unit had on Sunday also filed a police complaint against Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, BJP President JP Nadda, the saffron party’s state unit chief Ranjeet Kumar Dass and the eight newspapers, which included The Assam Tribune, Asomiya Pratidin, Aamar Asom and Dainik Asam.
Niran Borah, the chairperson of the legal department of Congress’s Assam unit, alleged that the BJP resorted to “illegal and unconstitutional” methods to influence the state’s voters, after realising that its defeat was inevitable, according to PTI.
“The advertisements have been presented in a manner on the front page of the newspapers to prejudice the mind of the voters and this deliberate, malicious and mala fide set of advertisements is in clear violation of...
