The staff on poll duty across districts have got busy with the task of identifying wall writings and posters put up during Chhattisgarh Chief Minister’s Raman Singh’s Vikas Yatra for a complete ‘clean-up’ immediately as per the guidelines of the Election Commission.
The officials have been categorically told that ‘not a single line of ‘Vikas Yatra’ campaign’ must be visible in any village, town or city on walls or any posters regarding the programme with the enforcement of the Model Code of Conduct in the State.
It may be recalled that the Congress party had complained in writing to the Chief Election Commissioner during the course of Chief Minister Raman Singh’s ‘Vikas Yatra’ in the State that the programme might influence voters politically.
A series of specific guidelines have also been handed over to the government officers and employees now on poll duty by their respective district polling officers with the enforcement of the Model Code of Conduct across the State.
The staff on polling duty in various Assembly segments have been told not to invite any public representative on the dias if any
Government sponsored programmes is being held in any part of the State.
The officials in various districts had also been directed by their respective district polling officers to not allow elections to any local bodies be held while the Assembly poll process is underway till the final results are announced on December 8, 2013.
The district polling officers have also directed their staff that penalty of `1,000 must be imposed on persons who put up posters or do wall writings on the property of persons without their written permission.
The offenders who put up the wall writings on the walls without taking permission from the property owners would have to pay the cost of cleaning up the writings as ‘outstanding land revenue, it was directed.
It had also been directed to the officials that all the wall writings regarding various government schemes must also be cleaned up as part of an exercise under Model Code of Conduct.