NEW DELHI: Progressive seizures of things seen as potential voter inducements in Bihar and different bypoll-bound states have touched Rs 71.3 crore in worth, the Election Fee shared on tuesday. The seized objects embrace roughly Rs 6 crore in unexplained money, liquor value Rs 27 crore, medicine value Rs 18 crore, valuable metals value Rs 5.5 crore and different freebies valued at almost Rs 15. crore.
The ballot physique additionally mentioned it had acquired 650 complaints on its C-Vigil app thus far. Of those, 649 have been disposed of; 612 complaints had been, in actual fact, resolved inside 100 minutes, it shared.In the meantime, the EC has directed political events and candidates to difficulty political ads within the print media throughout the ‘silence interval’, solely after having their content material cleared by the media certification and monitoring committee (MCMC).“So as to guarantee a good marketing campaign atmosphere, no political celebration, candidate, group or individual shall publish any commercial within the print media on ballot day and in the future previous to the ballot day, except the contents are pre-certified by the MCMC on the state/district stage,” the EC mentioned on Tuesday. That is in keeping with its directions on the matter, adopted each throughout the 2015 meeting ballot in Bihar and the 2019 Lok Sabha ballot.For Bihar, the restricted days can be Nov 5 and 6 and Nov 10 and 11, mentioned EC. It additionally mentioned candidates could apply for MCMC certification no later than two days previous to the proposed date of publication of the commercial.