Panel formed to keep eye on political adverts CEC TO CHECK POLL PREPAREDNESS

Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation commissioner and district election officer M. Dana Kishore formed the Media Certification and Monitoring Committee to keep a strict vigil on paid news, advertisements, campaigns on electronic and social media.

All political parties should get clearance from the MCMC prior to any advertisement in print and electronic media. Mr Dana Kishore will be the chairman of the five-member committee.

An MCMC committee member said that action will be taken if false information is posted on social media and the norms applicable to print and electronic media will also be applicable to social media. No publicity campaigns should be conducted Hyderabad, Oct. 21: Chief election commissioner Om Prakash Rawat and election commissioners Sunil Arora and Ashok Lavasa will be arriving here on Monday to review poll preparedness, Telangana chief electoral officer Rajat Kumar said.

“The Chief Election Commissioner and two ECs are coming to Hyderabad on Monday. It is a visit of the Commission. They would review the preparedness for the polls. If there is anything that their attention is drawn then they will look into that also,” at government expenditure. The MCMC committee will begin monitoring from the dat of nominations.

As a precautionary Kumar said. The is the first visit of the EC after the election schedule for the state was announced, to review the poll preparedness of the state.

The top EC officials would meet various political parties, besides senior officials of the state government and the police department, an official release had earlier said.

The team would meet the Director General of the Income Tax Department and other senior officials before leaving for the national capital on October 24.

— PTI measure the vigilance wing has already started recording the footage of eight news channels to check violations by any political party