State government Wednesday notified that existing Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA), unless sooner dissolved, would continue up to March 17 next and thereafter stand dissolved on expiration of its duration.<\/p>\n
A government notification has called upon all assembly constituencies in the state, to elect members to the legislative assembly of the state, in accordance with the provisions of the Representation of the People Act, 1951.<\/p>\n
Poll schedule notified<\/span> According to DIPR report, the state governor by a notification issued under sub-section (2) of section 15 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 (43 of 1951), published in the official Gazette of the State Wednesday called upon all of the assembly constituencies in Nagaland, to elect members to the legislative assembly of the state in accordance with rules and orders.<\/p>\n ECI has fixed February 6 (Wednesday) as the last date for filing nominations. The scrutiny of nominations would begin from February 7 and the last date of withdrawal would be February 9. Polling would begin on February 23 (Saturday) and the election would be completed by March 3. According to ECI, polling would start at 7 a.m. and end at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n ROs issues poll notice<\/span> The notice specified the specific legislative assembly constituency within the district and stated that nomination papers could be delivered by a candidate or by any of his proposers to the returning officer or to the additional deputy commissioner and assistant returning officer at the office 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on any day (other than public holiday) not later than February 6. It stated that nomination forms could be obtained at the office during the specified time.<\/p>\n The nomination papers would be taken up for scrutiny at the DC\u2019s office, said the notice adding that notice of withdrawal of candidature could be delivered by the candidate or by any of his proposers or his election agent who has been authorized in writing by the candidate to either of the officers specified above on February 9 from 11.00 a.m. to 3 p.m. Polling would take place on February 23 between 7 a.m. and 4 p.m.<\/p>\n ECI measures to check paid news<\/span> The members would also be examining complains\/issues of paid news etc by all members through a monitoring arrangement. Besides discharging the functions of Certifications of advertisements and checking of paid news, MCMC would also assist in enforcement of media related regulations under the Representation of People\u2019s Act. <\/p>\n MCMC would scan all media (newspapers, print media, electronic media, cable network, internet, mobile network etc) for suspected cases of paid news by monitoring both the electronic and print media. It would also check if the names and address of the publisher and the printer is carried on any election pamphlet, poster, hand bill and other document as required.<\/p>\n MCC would submit a daily report to accounting team with copy to RO and Expenditure Observer in respect of each candidate in the prescribed format with regard to expenditure incurred by the candidate on election advertising or actual expenditure incurred for publishing the \u201cnews\u201d that is substantiated by necessary documents furnished by the candidate or notional expenditure as computed by the committee in the assessed cases of paid news. <\/p>\n State level MCMC would also decide appeal from both district and additional joint CEO committees on certification of advertisement as per ECI\u2019s order. <\/p>\n Any appeal against the decision of the State level MCMC in matter of paid news would be made to ECI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" State government Wednesday notified that existing Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA), unless sooner dissolved, would continue up to March 17 next and thereafter stand dissolved on expiration of its duration. 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\nElection Commission of India (ECI) has notified the election process dates and schedules and the same have also been published in the Nagaland Gazette Extraordinary.<\/p>\n
\nReturning officers in the state\u2019s constituencies spread over the districts have issued poll notice with form 1 format to all the political parties.<\/p>\n
\nAs per the directives given in Election Commission of India (ECI) guidelines, Media Certification and Monitoring Committee (MCMC) would be constituted in each district during election period to keep a check on the cases of paid news.
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\nMCMC would have two functions. First function deals with certification of advertisements for which two specific MCMC members – RO and ARO would take a decision on such advertisements for certifications.<\/p>\n