District Collector Ankit Anand has asked representatives of all political parties to observe compliance of the model code of conduct for ensuring a fair and peaceful civic body elections scheduled for December 29 and 31.
He was addressing the all-party meeting held here on Sunday at the Collectorate.
Indian National Congress office bearer H Sona, Bharatiya Janata Party office bearers Santosh Tripathi and Tejnarayan Dubey along with Deputy District Election Officer Rajesh Nasheene, Jagdalpur Municipal Corporation Commissioner Ramesh Jaiswal, and Election Office clerk Santosh Srivas were present during the meeting.
The Collector exhorted the parties to comply with the norms relating to use of number of vehicles for poll campaign on the day of filing of nominations and on the day of polling.
Upper Collector Thakur said, political parties have to take prior permission before taking out any rally and organising any meet.
The political parties were also informed about the nomination fee for the post of Mayor, President and Corporators. Nomination fee for the post of Mayor in Jagdalpur Municipal Corporation is Rs 5,000 while for the posts of Panchayat President is Rs 2,000.
However, if a candidate is a woman or belongs to Schedule Caste, Schedule Tribe and Other Backward Class then that candidate is entitled for submitting only 50 per cent of the nomination fee, Thakur said.