Fixed rates for audio jingles, video spot
Bhopal: The Election Commission has fixed rates for video spot and audio jingles prepared by the political parties for election campaigning in Vidhan Sabha Election-2018. An amount of Rs 1.50 lakh for video spot of 60 seconds, Rs 2.50 lakh for 120 seconds, Rs 3 lakh for 3 minutes and Rs 4 lakh for video spot of 5 minutes have been fixed. Similarly, for jingle video, rates ie Rs 10,000 for 60 seconds of jingle, Rs 15,000 for 90 seconds, and Rs 20,000 for 120 seconds have been approved.
Prohibitory action against over 1.7L people
Bhopal: Chief Electoral Officer VL Kanta Rao has informed that after the model code of conduct has come into effect, a prohibitory action has been taken against 1,74287 people from October 6 to November 22, 2018 to ensure law and order in the state. During this period, 51,580 non-bailable warrants have been issued. Apart from this, 4,847 illegal firearms have been confiscated and 2,61,652 firearms have been deposited in the police stations.
Under the property defacement, as many as 19,56,504 cases have been registered and out of this action has been taken in 19 lakh cases. A total of 14,42,576 cases of government property defacement have been registered and action has been taken in 14,07,050 cases. Similarly, 5,13,928 cases of private property defacement have been registered and action has been taken against 4,93,773 cases. Besides, 13,884 cases of misuse of vehicles have been registered during this period.