भारत निवडणूक आयोगाने आज निवडणुकांची घोषणा केली.
महाराष्ट्रातील निवडणुकांच्या तारखा खालीलप्रमाणे आहेत
ELECTION COMMISSION OF INDIA
MODEL CODE OF CONDUCT
FOR THE GUIDANCE OF
POLITICAL PARTIES AND CANDIDATES
(1) No party or candidate shall include in any activity which may aggravate existing
differences or create mutual hatred or cause tension between different castes and
communities, religious or linguistic.
(2) Criticism of other political parties, when made, shall be confined to their policies
and programme, past record and work. Parties and Candidates shall refrain from criticism
of all aspects of private life, not connected with the public activities of the leaders or
workers of other parties. Criticism of other parties or their workers based on unverified
allegations or distortion shall be avoided.
(3) There shall be no appeal to caste or communal feelings for securing votes.
Mosques, Churches, Temples or other places of worship shall not be used as forum for
election propaganda.
(4) All parties and candidates shall avoid scrupulously all activities which are
“corrupt practices” and offences under the election law, such as bribing of voters,
intimidation of voters, impersonation of voters, canvassing within 100 meters of polling
stations, holding public meetings during the period of 48 hours ending with the hour fixed
for the close of the poll, and the transport and conveyance of voters to and from polling
station.
(5) The right of every individual for peaceful and undisturbed home-life shall be
respected, however much the political parties or candidates may resent his political opinions
or activities. Organizing demonstrations or picketing before the houses of individuals by way
of protesting against their opinions or activities shall not be resorted to under any
circumstances.
(6) No political party or candidate shall permit its or his followers to make use of any
individual’s land, building, compound wall etc., without his permission for erecting flag- staffs, suspending banners, pasting notices, writing slogans etc.2
(7) Political parties and candidates shall ensure that their supporters do not create
obstructions in or break up meetings and processions organized by other parties. Workers
or sympathizers of one political party shall not create disturbances at public meetings
organized by another political party by putting questions orally or in writing or by
distributing leaflets of their own party. Processions shall not be taken out by one party along
places at which meetings are held by another party. Posters issued by one party shall not be
removed by workers of another party.
II. Meetings.
(1) The party or candidate shall inform the local police authorities of the venue and
time any proposed meeting Well in time so as to enable the police to make necessary
arrangements for controlling traffic and maintaining peace and order.
(2) A Party or candidate shall ascertain in advance if there is any restrictive or
prohibitory order in force in the place proposed for the meeting if such orders exist, they
shall be followed strictly. If any exemption is required from such orders, it shall be applied
for and obtained well in time.
(3) If permission or license is to be obtained for the use of loudspeakers or any other
facility in connection with any proposed meeting, the party or candidate shall apply to the
authority concerned well in advance and obtain such permission or license.
(4) Organisers of a meeting shall invariably seek the assistance of the police on duty
for dealing with persons disturbing a meeting or otherwise attempting to create disorder.
Organisers themselves shall not take action against such persons.
III. Procession
(1) A Party or candidate organizing a procession shall decide before hand the time
and place of the starting of the procession, the route to be followed and the time and place at
which the procession will terminate. There shall ordinary be on deviation from the
programme.
(2) The organisers shall give advance intimation to the local police authorities of the
programme so as to enable the letter to make necessary arrangement.3
(3) The organisers shall ascertain if any restrictive orders are in force in the localities
through which the procession has to pass, and shall comply with the restrictions unless
exempted specially by the competent authority. Any traffic regulations or restrictions shall
also be carefully adhered to.
(4) The organisers shall take steps in advance to arrange for passage of the
procession so that there is no block or hindrance to traffic. If the procession is very long, it
shall be organised in segments of suitable lengths, so that at convenient intervals, especially
at points where the procession has to pass road junctions, the passage of held up traffic
could be allowed by stages thus avoiding heavy traffic congestion.
(5) Processions shall be so regulated as to keep as much to the right of the road as
possible and the direction and advice of the police on duty shall be strictly complied with.
6) If two or more political parties or candidates propose to take processions over the
same route or parts thereof at about the same time, the organisers shall establish contact well
in advance and decide upon the measures to be taken to see that the processions do not clash
or cause hindrance to traffic. The assistance of the local police shall be availed of for arriving
at a satisfactory arrangement. For this purpose the parties shall contact the police at the
earliest opportunity.
(7) The political parties or candidates shall exercise control to the maximum extent
possible in the matter of processionists carrying articles which may be put to misuse by
undesirable elements especially in moments of excitement.
(8) The carrying of effigies purporting to represent member of other political parties
or their leaders, burning such effigies in public and such other forms demonstration shall not
be countenanced by any political party or candidate.
IV. Polling Day
All Political parties and candidates shall –
(i) co-operate with the officers on election duty to ensure peaceful and orderly polling
and complete freedom to the voters to exercise their franchise without being subjected to
any annoyance or obstruction.
(ii) supply to their authorized workers suitable badges or identity cards.
(iii) agree that the identity slip supplied by them to voters hall be on plain (white)
paper and shall not contain any symbol, name of the candidate or the name of the party;4
(iv) refrain from serving or distributing liquor on polling day and during the fourty
eight hours preceding it.
(v) not allow unnecessary crowd to be collected near the camps set up by the political
parties and candidates near the polling booths so as to avoid Confrontation and tension
among workers and sympathizers of the parties and the candidate.
(vi) ensure that the candidate’s camps shall be simple .The shall not display any
posters, flags, symbols or any other propaganda material. No eatable shall be served or
crowd allowed at the camps and
(vii) co-operate with the authorities in complying with the restrictions to be imposed
on the plying of vehicles on the polling day and obtain permits for them which should be
displayed prominently on those vehicles.
V. Polling Booth
Excepting the voters, no one without a valid pass from the Election Commission shall
enter the polling booths.
VI. Observers
The Election Commission is appointing Observers. If the candidates or their agents
have any specific complaint or problem regarding the conduct of elections they may bring
the same to the notice of the Observer.
VII. Party in Power
The party in power whether at the Centre or in the State or States concerned, shall
ensure that no cause is given for any complaint that it has used its official position for the
purposes of its election campaign and in particular –
(i) (a) The Ministers shall not combine their official visit with electioneering work
and shall not also make use of official machinery or personnel during the electioneering
work.
(b) Government transport including official air-crafts, vehicles, machinery and
personnel shall not be used for furtherance of the interest of the party in power;
(ii) Public places such as maidens etc., for holding election meetings, and use of
helipads for air-flights in connection with elections shall not be monopolized by itself. Other
parties and candidates shall be allowed the use of such places and facilities on the same
terms and conditions on which they are used by the party in power;5
(iii) Rest houses, dark bungalows or other Government accommodation shall not be
monopolized by the party in power or its candidates and such accommodation shall be
allowed to be used by other parties and candidates in a fair manner but no party or
candidate shall use or be allowed to use such accommodation (including premises
appertaining thereto) as a campaign office or for holding any public meeting for the
purposes of election propaganda;
(iv) Issue of advertisement at the cost of public exchequer in the newspapers and
other media and the misuse of official mass media during the election period for partisan
coverage of political news and publicity regarding achievements with a view to furthering
the prospects of the party in power shall be scrupulously avoided.
(v) Ministers and other authorities shall not sanction grants/payments out of
discretionary funds from the time elections are announced by the Commission; and
(vi) From the time elections are announced by Commission, Ministers and other
authorities shall not –
(a) announce any financial grants in any form or promises thereof; or
(b) (except civil servants) lay foundation stones etc. of projects or schemes of any
kind; or
(c) make any promise of construction of roads, provision of drinking water facilities
etc.; or
(d) make any ad-hoc appointments in Government, Public Undertakings etc. which
may have the effect of influencing the voters in favor of the party in power.
Note : The Commission shall announce the date of any election which shall be a date ordinarily
not more than three weeks prior to the date on which the notification is likely to be issued in
respect of such elections.
(vii) Ministers of Central or State Government shall not enter any polling station or place of
counting except in their capacity as a candidate or voter or authorized agent.
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