Close vigil on campaigns of CM Das, Saryu, others in Raghubar Nagar
JAMSHEDPUR: East Singhbhum district election law and order cell has formed a special team with magistrate, security force and a videographer to keep a close vigil on the election campaign activities, rallies, public meetings and other events of prominent candidates like chief minister (CM) Raghubar Das, former state ministers Saryu Roy, Banna Gupta, Ramchandra Sahis and Devendra Singh and ensure compliance of the model code of conduct (MCC).
The move comes close on the heels of Raghubar Das supporters and his close aide Rambabu Tiwari and supports of Saryu Roy here at Raghubar Nagar on Friday. Both the high profile candidates are locked in a bitter electoral battle in JamshedpurEast seat, which goes to the polls on December 7.
“We have deployed a team with magistrate and a videographer along with security forces that will closely monitor the movement of rallies, public meetings and other events by Jamshedpur-East candidates Raghubar Das, Saryu Roy, Jamshedpur-West candidates Banna Gupta and Devendra Singh and Jugsalai candidate Ramchandra Sahis henceforth. They have been instructed to keep a close tab on the activities of their election agents in case of absence of candidates,” said Ravishankar Shukla, East Singhbhum deputy commissioner (DC) cum-election officer.
The magistrate has been asked to submit his report to
MCC cell and CD of the videography to expenditure cell everyday. “This is being done to ensure free and fair election without any electoral malpractices,” DC said.
Clashes had broken out between supporters of Jamshedpur-East independent candidate Saryu Roy and Ram Babu Tiwari, close aide of Raghubar Das at Raghubar Nagar under Burmamines police station at around 11: 30 am on Friday, leaving a few people with minor injuries.
The DC also directed to lodge
FIRs against Bharatiya Janata Vahini (BJV) and printing press concerned for publishing and distributing objectionable pamphlets under section 127 of the Representation of Peoples Act (RPA) and violation of MCC. He also ordered FIR against social media profile of one ‘Manish Singh– Ek Hindustani’ under appropriate sections of IPC for sharing objectionable comments on social media.
The meeting of the Monitoring Committee and Media Certification (MCMC) chaired by the DC also warned and directed the Congress candidate from Jamshedpur-West seat Banna Gupta to submit a report on destroying pamphlets distributed by him without getting those pamphlets verified by the MCMC.
The static surveillance team (SST) of the area concerned has been asked to submit a report after investigating the timing of the publication and distribution of those pamphlets. The district MCMC has also been asked to report paid news being published in daily newspapers to the state level MCMC.