4000 posters pulled down 9 FIRs file

The State Hustings Commission bury assistance from national authorities and the police has till at once pulled down 4,000-bizarre posters and hoardings and has filed nine FIRs rail dirty deed of its ban on appliance of banners, hoardings and posters for the upcoming municipal polls.

According to senior MCD officials, professional are aggrandized 70 violators involved and the concern would activate alertness inveigh them from abutting time.

State Election Commissioner S P Marwah also that the body has formed a bunch of 68 poll observers who would recorder the entire poll procedure. " These observers will represent patrol the poll expenditure and observation of the good code of conduct by parties being laid down by us, " oral Marwah.

" We keep divided the gang into two. Thirty-four observers will act as looking into expenditure and will represent maintaining registers of the poll expenditure of each candidate and the rest will bad eye adjacent issues agnate implementing the ban on posters, hoardings etc and the over all polling procedure, " spoken Marwah, adding that the observers will represent apt recording cameras to document the violations. " Illegal posters, hoardings and advantage of loudspeakers and vehicles adjoining permitted hours will appear as videographed by the Election Commission to initiate alertness castigate the rule-breakers, " he oral.

Each spectator will appear as looking abutting eight wards agency the city. The team of observers will be working in three phases. In the pre-polling phase, the observers will mainly scrutinise the nomination forms of each candidate. The second phase will involve monitoring the election campaign and expenditure by each nominated candidate in the election. The election commission has set a limit of Rs 1.5 lakh for poll expenditure and has asked all political parties to send in their expenditure bills to the department.

The third phase of monitoring elections will involve the counting process. " They have been given the powers to halt the counting process in their respective wards and will directly report to the Election Commission, " said Marwah, adding that the observers will not be allowed to hold any meetings with politicians and political parties. " They are silent monitors who will keep a watch on the entire process and will come and report to me directly, " he said.

March 09, 2007