MCC calls for 48-hour ‘silence period’ before elections, but rules are hazy on social media or speeches outside ‘polling area’. It’s a loophole PM seems have leveraged many times.
Violations range from flouting Covid norms, to clicking pictures inside polling booth, false allegations against other parties, to campaigning after deadline.
Reminder comes at a time when PM Modi and UP CM Yogi have given interviews, other leaders have held rallies when 48-hr silence period was applicable in certain poll-bound regions.
EC has written to the former CEC claiming that during his 2-year tenure, only 9 showcause notices for MCC violations, and no FIRs, were issued in 11 state and union territory elections.
The Election Commission turned down an RTI request for commissioner Lavasa's dissent notes pertaining to model code violations by PM Modi and Amit Shah.
CEC Sunil Arora and commissioner Sushil Chandra overrule Ashok Lavasa's view that not recording dissent in model code violations renders minority view meaningless.
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