ECI Imposes Ban On Campaigning Hours For Anurag Thakur & Parvesh Sahib Singh for Delhi polls

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New Delhi  : Election Commission of India (ECI) has considered the response received from the two Bhartiya Janata Party leaders : Anurag Thakur, Union Minister of State, and  Parvesh Sahib Singh, MP,  in context of the Show Cause Notices issued to both these leaders on January 28, 2020, and January 29, 2020, respectively. The Commission is of the considered view that Anurag Thakur and Parvesh Sahib Singh have made undesirable and objectionable statements and thus violated the provisions of Model Code of Conduct and Representation of the People Act 1951.

The Commission under Article 324 of the Constitution of India and all other powers enabling it in this behalf, bars Anurag Thakur and Parvesh Sahib Singh from holding any public meetings, public processions, public rallies, road shows and interviews, public utterances in media (electronic, print, social media) etc in connection with ongoing General Elections to the Legislative Assembly of NCT of Delhi, 2020, for a period of 72 hours (for Anurag Thakur) and 96 hours (for Parvesh Sahib Singh) from 5 pm on January 30, 2020, according to a PIB release.

The ECI’s orders already passed on January 29, 2020, to remove Anurag Thakur and Parvesh Sahib Singh from the list of ‘Star Campaigners’ for the current General Election to the Legislative Assembly of NCT of Delhi shall continue to be in force.