{"id":27805,"date":"2018-10-23T16:18:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T10:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=27805"},"modified":"2018-10-23T16:18:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T10:48:27","slug":"poll-panel-to-brainstorm-on-key-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/poll-panel-to-brainstorm-on-key-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll panel to brainstorm on key issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/poll-panel-to-brainstorm-on-key-issues\/article24774155.ece\">Poll panel to brainstorm on key issues<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Election commission discussing how to address online party campaign during last 48 hours before election.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Important facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2. Election commission of India has shown concern over maintaining the party campaign silent is last 48 hours before election.<\/p>\n<p>3. The law prohibits canvassing during last 48 hours before election.<\/p>\n<p>4. These help voters to cast their vote without any influence created by political party in last minute.<\/p>\n<p>5. The commission has also considering bringing print media under section 126(1) (b) of RPA Act.<\/p>\n<p>6. Section 126 (1) (b) of RPA lists mediums in which display of election matter is prohibited and includes television, cinematograph or similar apparatus.<\/p>\n<p>7. Apart from this, other issues include participation of women and election expenditure by political party.<\/p>\n<p>8. Currently we only have figure of 11.4 % women participation in Lok Sabha lower than global average of 22 %.<\/p>\n<p>9. The present law provide expenditure limit on candidate only but not political party as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>10. Election Commission seeking advice if expenditure ceiling can be imposed on political party too.<\/p>\n<p>11. Commission has proposed ceiling should be either 50 % or not more than the expenditure ceiling of a candidate multiply by number of candidates.<\/p>\n<p>12. Political parties to provide the views on state legislative council election also as huge amount of unaccounted money is spent on it.<\/p>\n<p>13. Management of migrants and absentee voters through proxy, e-voting and postal needs to be considered.<\/p>\n<p>14. Voting rights to be ensured by linking Voter ID with Adhaar.<\/p>\n<p>15. Other suggestion of EC include, one time registration for migrants, spreading voter\u2019s right awareness, helpline support number for domestic migrants etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poll panel to brainstorm on key issues News: Election commission discussing how to address online party campaign during last 48 hours before election. Important facts: 2. Election commission of India has shown concern over maintaining the party campaign silent is last 48 hours before election. 3. The law prohibits canvassing during last 48 hours before&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/poll-panel-to-brainstorm-on-key-issues\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Poll panel to brainstorm on key issues<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704724837},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}