Election Commission has banned telecast of feature films of the actors who are contesting in the on-going lok Sabha elections, on Doordarshan.However films and advertisements of the contesting candidates in the private channels or cinema halls have not been banned.
Chief Electoral Officer(CEO) Umesh Sinha said here on Wednesday evening that only films and not the advertisements of the contesting candidates have been banned on Doordarshan. He said that the feature films have been banned in Doordarshan as it is run through public money.However, he said that private players, they were free to show films or commercials of the stars contesting polls.
Meanwhile a notification for the all important sixth and last phase of the polling would be issue on Thursday when the most crucial and highest number of 18 lok Sabha seats in eastern Uttar Pradesh would go to polls on May 12. BJP PM candidate Narendra Modi and Former Delhi CM and Aam Admi Party candidate Arvind Kejriwal, both from Varanasi, Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav from Azamgarh, BJP’s Yogi Adityanath from Gorakhpur, UP Assembly Speaker and SP candidate Mata Prasad Pandey from Doomariaganj, Union minister of state for Home and Congress candidate R P N Singh from Kushinagar, Bhojpuri actor and Congress candidate Ravi Kishan from Jaunpur, and BJP MlA Kalraj Mishra from Deoria are the prominent candidates in the fray for the last phase of polling in UP.
Candidates can file their nominations till April 24 while on the next day, the papers would be scrutinised. Candidates can withdraw their nominations till April 28. The seats going to polls in the last phase are: Domariyaganj, Maharajganj, Gorakhpur,Kushi Nagar, Deoria,Bansgaon (SC), lalganj(SC), Azamgarh, Ghosi, Salempur, Ballia, Jaunpur, Machhlishahr(SC), Ghazipur,Chandauli, Varanasi, Mirzapur and Robertsganj(SC).