Election Commission Asks All Political Parties To Stop Registration For Post-Election Beneficiary Schemes Through Advertisements, Surveys Or Apps

The Election Commission today issued an advisory to all national and State political parties to immediately cease and desist from any activities that involve registering individuals for post-election beneficiary-oriented schemes through any advertisements, surveys or Apps.  

The Commission said, the act of inviting or calling upon individual electors to register for post-election benefits may create an impression of the



requirement of a one-to-one transactional relationship between the elector and the proposed benefit and has the potential to generate a quid-pro-quo arrangement for voting in a particular way thereby leading to inducement.

 

The Commission has directed all District Election Officers to take appropriate actions against any such advertisements within the statutory provisions.