Delhi think-tank requests EC to initiate legal action against exit polls

CASC has written to the Election Commission saying the exit polls violate Section 126A of the Representation of People Act

LokSabha Elections 2019:A Delhi-based research organization has kept in touch with the Election Commission mentioning activity or First Information Report (FIR) against ‘unlawful Exit Polls for infringement of Section 126A of the Representation of People Act, 1951’.

The research organization, Center for Accountability and Systemic Change (CASC), said in a correspondence to the EC that the approach of leave surveys led by different offices and organizations were deluding.

Refering to the approach of Axis-My India’s overview, CASC said “Despite the fact that ‘Leave Poll’ is the usually utilized terminology, in fact talking, the review was a ‘Post-Poll’ study…In Exit Polls, respondents are met outside the surveying stalls as individuals exit in the wake of throwing cast a ballot. As per rules of the Election Commission of India, Exit Polls are restricted… ..Note that no information gathering was done outside the surveying corners as it isn’t allowable as per ECI rules.”

CASC has scrutinized the mislabeling of these surveys. “It is presented that the Post Poll Surveys were distributed and broadcast in appearance of Exit Polls. In the event that it is done as such, it is a reasonable instance of misrepresentation and deceiving by such organizations. Illumination might be looked for from every such office by Election Commission. On the off chance that such organizations guarantee that Exit Polls were not led, at that point the Election Commission may guide them to issue the essential illumination and open notice,” the research organization said in its letter to the Chief Election Commissioner.

So also, another office, IPSOS, expressed its strategy for gathering information as: “Voters were arbitrarily chosen outside the surveying station. Each third voter turning out in the wake of making choice was chosen. The Survey was led on the Election Day in all the seven periods of surveying. The talking procedure began while surveying opened and proceeded for the duration of the day until casting a ballot shut to guarantee a superior portrayal of voters coming in at various time groups.”

Area 126A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 does not enable any individual to lead, distribute or plug a leave survey. Further, in a warning dated April 7, the EC had said that leave surveys were precluded between 7.00 am on April 11, 2019 and 6:30 pm on May 19, 2019.

While leave surveys were made open simply after 6:30 pm on May 19, the gathering of information occurred between April 11 and May 19.

CASC said that the leave surveys led by different offices, professing to gather information of around eight lakh voters, were a reasonable instance of infringement of the law and Election Commission warnings.

The research organization has mentioned a point by point enquiry by the EC into the issue. “You may catch every single such datum of voters to ask if those were gathered outside the surveying corner – a condition required to gather information”.

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Don’t need BJP money, Bengal can rebuild Vidyasagar’s statue: Mamata

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during a rally in Uttar Pradesh, had promised to install the statue at the same spot where it stood before being desecrated on Tuesday

LokSabha Elections 2019:Boss Minister Mamata Banerjee said Thursday Bengal does not require cash from the BJP, it has enough assets to remake the Vidyasagar statue that was vandalized at a Kolkata school following Amit Shah’s roadshow.

Executive Narendra Modi, amid a rally in Uttar Pradesh, had guaranteed to introduce the statue at a similar spot where it remained before being profaned on Tuesday.

Tending to a rally here, Banerjee stated, “Modi has guaranteed to reconstruct the Vidyasagar statue in Kolkata. For what reason should we take their (BJP’s) cash, Bengal has enough assets.”

She additionally assaulted the BJP, asserting that vandalizing statues was one of its propensities and that the gathering has done as such in Tripura also.

“The BJP has obliterated 200-year-old legacy of West Bengal, those supporting the gathering won’t be acknowledged by the general public,” she cautioned.

Hitting out at the saffron party over its internet based life posts, the Trinamool Congress supremo additionally said that the BJP had been spreading canards over Facebook and Twitter.

“The BJP is attempting to prompt individuals and cause riots with its phony posts via web-based networking media,” she included.

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BJP will cross 300 seats, have already crossed the majority mark: Shah

According to the BJP president, they have already crossed the majority mark after the sixth phase. He also said the proposed opposition meeting can be used to elect the leader of the opposition.

LokSabha Elections 2019:BJP president Amit Shah on Wednesday enthused certainty that his gathering has effectively crossed the dominant part mark after 6th period of Lok Sabha surveys and tore into resistance groups over their proposed gathering, saying they may meet to choose a pioneer of restriction.

“I am completely sure that the BJP after fifth and 6th period of the races has crossed the larger part figure. It will cross 300 after the seventh stage,” he told a question and answer session here.

The seventh and last period of the decisions for 543 Lok Sabha seats is expected on May 19. A gathering needs to win 272 seats for a straightforward lion’s share. The BJP had won 282 out of 2014.

Deriding the proposed gathering of resistance pioneers and the move by some provincial gatherings like TRS to shape a government front, Shah said such gatherings don’t influence the BJP whose seats, he included, are not going to descended.

They may meet to choose a pioneer of resistance, he stated, including that outcomes even this time may not give any gathering enough number of seats to choose a pioneer of restriction from its positions.

The Congress, the principle resistance, had won just 44 situates in 2014, not exactly the base 10 percent of seats a gathering needs to win to guarantee the post of the pioneer of restriction in the LoK Sabha.

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All-women polling booths in every LS constituency of Maharashtra

As per the Election Commission’s (EC) directions to set up polling stations entirely managed by women, such booths will be set up in all 40 Lok Sabha seats of the state

ELECTIONS: An all-ladies surveying stall will be set up in each Lok Sabha supporters of Maharashtra amid the following month’s surveys in an offered to urge increasingly female voters to practice their establishment.

According to the Election Commission’s (EC) bearings to set up surveying stations totally overseen by ladies, such corners will be set up in each of the 40 Lok Sabha seats of the express, a discharge issued by the race office here said.

“Each one of those sent at such surveying stations – police, decision officers and different workers – will be ladies. These corners, an activity towards sex uniformity and including ladies’ interest in the discretionary procedure, will be called as ‘Sakhi Matdan Kendras’,” it said.

According to the EC’s rules, there would be no particular shading code for such surveying stations, the discharge stated, including that their security will be a top need.

Delicate surveying stations will be kept out of this trial while those close tehsil office or police headquarters will be viewed as overseen by ladies, it said.

Rangoli and other fine arts would be utilized to make these stalls increasingly appealing and to lay accentuation on tidiness, it included.

The quantity of ladies voters this time hasincreased to 911 for every 1,000 men, as against 889 for every 1,000 men in 2014, according to official figures.

Out of the all out 8,73,29,910 voters in the state, 4,57,01,877 are men, 4,16,25,950 ladies and 2,083 third sex voters.

Lok Sabha decisions will be held in Maharashtra in four stages on April 11, 18, 23 and 29 and outcomes will be announced on May 23.

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