ECI Wants Printer, Publisher Name on Poll Materials
Hyderabad: The Election Fee of India (ECI) has issued directives to all State Chief Electoral Officers to obviously establish printers and publishers of printed election-related supplies, together with hoardings. That is to make sure higher accountability and transparency in marketing campaign communications.
The ECI has now positioned the onus on printers, publishers, and licencees/contractors of city native our bodies renting out out of doors promoting area for political commercials. The orders additionally pressured on disclosing the id of publishers, linking it to marketing campaign financing and accountability for content material.
Part 127A of the Illustration of Folks’s Act 1951 prohibits the printing or publishing of election supplies with out the printer and writer’s identify and deal with. The ECI instructed Chief Electoral Officers to make sure strict compliance with these rules by all political events within the state.
