Posters, banners and hoardings have been purged from Government and private buildings for Vidhan Sabha elections in Madhya Pradesh on November 25.
These have been removed while acting as per provisions of the model code of conduct. legal action is also being ensured against the violators of the model code under Prevention of Defacement of Public Property Act in districts. So far, 2.43 lakh wall paintings, posters, banners etc have been removed from public and private properties. As many as 2.8 lakh posters, banners and wall paintings have been removed from public properties and 35,162 publicity material from private properties.
Besides, other materials including — 43,822 wall writings, 67,752 posters, 38,916 banners and 57,729 have been removed from public properties. During the action, 123 cases have also been registered. Similarly, 14,856 wall writings, 7,728 posters, 4,800 banners and 7,788 other materials have been removed from public properties. As many as 28 cases have also been registered in this regard.
As many as 595 cases of misuse of vehicles have come to the fore in districts and FIRs have been registered in 29 cases. Similarly, FIRs have been registered in 22 out of 64 cases for use of loudspeakers without official permission. Action has been taken in 4 out of 11 cases of holding election meetings and speeches etc without permission of the Government . Cases have been registered in 4 out of out 27 complaints regarding bribing voters with cash or kind. Cases have also been registered in 44 out of 289 other complaints.