The Central Election Committee of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will meet on Thursday and is likely to finalise its first list of candidates for Assembly polls in Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry.
File photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. | PTI
The Election Commission of India on Wednesday directed all petrol pump dealers and other agencies to remove hoardings advertising the Centre’s schemes that has Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s photographs, from the premises of the facilities within 72 hours, reported PTI, citing officials.
An official from the West Bengal Chief Electoral Office said that the use of the prime minister’s photograph in hoardings violates the Model Code of Conduct. The Election Commission of India had announced the schedule for elections in four states, including West Bengal, and one Union Territory on February 26, the date when the Model Code of Conduct came into force in these places.
4086 Assembly polls: From New Delhiâs perspective, Tamil Nadu is the most significant state in the southern region. PTI
Radhika Ramaseshan
Senior Journalist
The Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have invested an inordinate amount of time, energy and ingenuity in crafting their campaigns and barnstorming the southern states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala and the Union Territory of Puducherry in the run-up to the Assembly elections. The grubstakes appear disproportionate to the ground strength and following of the two parties, although given its political bequest, the Congress might be a tad ahead of the BJP.
The two states and the UT have a robust flavour of the regional as against the ‘national’ in the other two southern states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Karnataka alone is conformist in the political sense. Bengaluru’s politics veers between the BJP and the Congress, although the provincial Janata Dal (Secular) has its niche.
TN: BJP asks EC to stop Rahul Gandhi from campaigning, book him for sedition after event in school
The party said his interaction with students of St Joseph’s Matric Higher Secondary School in Mulagumoodu in Kanyakumari was akin to poll campaign. Mar 04, 2021 · 08:44 pm Congress MP Rahul Gandhi at the event in a school in Kanyakumari district of Tamil Nadu on March 1. | Congress/Twitter screengrab
The Tamil Nadu unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday wrote to the Election Commission to restrain Congress MP Rahul Gandhi from campaigning in the state ahead of the upcoming Assembly polls, alleging that he had violated the Model Code of Conduct, PTI reported.
PM Modi s Photo on COVID-19 Vaccine Certificates Violation of MCC, Says TMC
TMC, which has called this move a publicity stunt will move EC, requesting the photo not appear any more.
PM Modi s photo on a COVID-19 vaccination certificate. Photo: By arrangement
Politics02/Mar/2021
New Delhi: Trinamool Congress MP Derek O’Brien said that his party will petition the Election Commission of India on photographs of Prime Minister Narendra Modi appearing on certificates issued to those who have been receiving COVID-19 vaccines in violation of the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) currently in effect in poll-bound states.
The MCC comes into effect from the day when the election schedule is announced and remains in force until election results are declared. The ECI announced the poll schedule for assembly elections in Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry on February 26. While elections are held from March 27 to April 29, counting in all states and the Union Territory of Pudu