{"id":88936,"date":"2019-03-30T17:06:56","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T11:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=3188"},"modified":"2019-03-30T17:06:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T11:36:56","slug":"pms-speech-didnt-violate-the-code-of-conduct-ec-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pms-speech-didnt-violate-the-code-of-conduct-ec-2\/","title":{"rendered":"PM\u2019s speech didn\u2019t violate the code of conduct: EC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Election Commission (EC) has said that Prime\nMinister Narendra Modi\u2019s address to nation on the success of Mission Shakti, anti-satellite\nmissile testing, did not violate the provision of &#8221;party in power&#8221; in Model\nCode of Conduct (MCC).<\/li><li>The EC has taken the decision based on the\nreport of a committee of officers. The EC had set up a committee to examine\nwhether Prime Minister\u2019s address to the nation was in violation to provisions\nof MCC after opposition parties had alleged so and demanded actions against it.<\/li><li>PM\u2019s address was telecast on numerous news\nchannels, social media and radio. The committee had sought response from state\nbroadcasters Doordarshan and All India Radio (AIR) about the source of feed. Doordarshan\nhad informed the EC that PM\u2019s message was telecast from the feed provided by\nANI.<\/li><li>The committee had come to the conclusion that\nthe MCC provision regarding misuse of official mass media (Para (IV) of Part\nVII) is not attracted to the case. Issue of advertisement at the cost of public\nmoney in the newspapers and other media and the misuse of official mass media\nduring the election period for partisan coverage of political news and\npublicity regarding achievements amounts to violation of MCC.<\/li><li>Model code of Conduct (MCC) are the guidelines\nissued by the Election Commission of India for conduct of political parties and\ncandidates during elections. The MCC comes into force immediately on the\nannouncement of the election schedule by the commission. The Code remains in\nforce till the end of the electoral process.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Election Commission (EC) has said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s address to nation on the success of Mission Shakti, anti-satellite missile testing, did not violate the provision of &#8221;party in power&#8221; in Model Code of Conduct (MCC). The EC has taken the decision based on the report of a committee of officers. The EC&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pms-speech-didnt-violate-the-code-of-conduct-ec-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PM\u2019s speech didn\u2019t violate the code of conduct: EC<\/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":[1760],"tags":[941],"class_list":["post-88936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-and-nation","tag-model-code-of-conduct","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704639621},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88936","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=88936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}