Electioneering materials used by political parties and candidates are being removed to ensure free and fair lok Sabha elections in the State. This comes after 14 days of the announcement of the elections, the process has been started to remove posters, banners, wall writings etc. in cities and towns of the State.
Under Prevention of Defacement of Public Property Act, 67,137 wall writings, posters, banners etc have been removed from public and private properties. As many as 58,437 posters, banners and wall paintings have been removed from public properties and 8,700 publicity material from private properties.
So far, 14,559 wall writings, 21,464 posters, 13,274 banners and 9,140 other materials have been removed from public properties. During the action, 42 cases have also been registered. Similarly, 3,325 wall writings, 2,474 posters, 2185 banners and 2,039 other materials have been removed 8,700 from public properties after registering four cases.
Three cases including an FIR have been registered for violation of Prevention of Defacement of Properties Act, 2 FIRs for misuse of loudspeaker, and 5 cases including 4 FIRs. As many as 2 FIRs have been registered against 14 persons for effort to bribe voters and 54 cases including 4 FIRs have been registered in other cases. In this say 66 cases including 29 FIRs have been registered so far.
At Barwani, Patel Rock Drill, Khandwa complained that PHE’s executive engineer invited tenders even after announcement of elections which is being investigated by the collector.
Inspector of University Police Station in Gwalior Saxena registered an FIR against Bhupendra Singh and Pankaj Sharma for violating government order. A case has been registered at Barghat police station against former Congress candidate for Barghat Vidhan Sabha constituency Arjun Kakodiya on the complaint of violation of mode code of conduct lodged by Narendra Singh Thakur of BJP in Seoni district.