‘Repeat telecast of Modi US speech under scanner’
BY M Post Bureau16 Oct 2014 12:48 AM GMT
M Post Bureau16 Oct 2014 12:48 AM GMT
Election Commission on Wednesday said that the issue of the repeat telecast of prime minister Narendra Modi's speech at Madison Square Garden by several Marathi channels ahead of Assembly polls in western Indian state Maharashtra was ‘under examination’.
Congress had complained to the poll body that Bharatiya Janata Party had misused the speech for electoral gains by sponsoring its repeat telecast last week.
‘It is under examination,’ DG in the Commission, PK Dash, told reporters when asked whether EC had taken a decision in the matter.
But EC sources said that any action against BJP was unlikely, as per report submitted by the
Maharashtra chief electoral officer, the telecast was cleared by the media monitoring committee which keeps a tab on media during the operation of the model code of conduct.
EC had recently said it had found nothing in Modi’s radio broadcast ‘Maan Ki Baat’ which was violative of the model code.
Congress had complained to the poll body that Bharatiya Janata Party had misused the speech for electoral gains by sponsoring its repeat telecast last week.
‘It is under examination,’ DG in the Commission, PK Dash, told reporters when asked whether EC had taken a decision in the matter.
But EC sources said that any action against BJP was unlikely, as per report submitted by the
Maharashtra chief electoral officer, the telecast was cleared by the media monitoring committee which keeps a tab on media during the operation of the model code of conduct.
EC had recently said it had found nothing in Modi’s radio broadcast ‘Maan Ki Baat’ which was violative of the model code.
Next Story