Kerala - Kochi
Parties told to remove poll posters from Government property

Staff Reporter

Meeting held to review preparation for Assembly polls

KOCHI: Additional District Magistrate (ADM) Johnson K. George has directed that those who have put up election posters and writings on compound walls of Government offices and public sector units shall remove them immediately.

He was addressing a meeting of the representatives of political parties at the Collectorate, convened as part of the preparations for the Assembly polls.

The directive was issued in the wake of complaints at the meeting that certain political parties were trying to misuse compound walls of Government offices and public sector units.

The ADM said that if parties failed to obey the directive, the Government would do the cleaning at the Government's expense and recover the amount from the respective candidate.

CD of voters' list
"Each recognised political party will be given a CD of the voters' list free of cost. The CD copy will contain no photographs. Others can also purchase the CD at a cost of Rs.100."

He said the district administration would hold talks with the representatives of political parties for solving problems that might arise during the poll process.

The names and details of representatives of each recognised political party for this purpose should be intimated at the Election Department.

Election Deputy Collector P.K. Nalan and representatives of political parties including P.M. Ismail, Abdul Muthalib, Kumbalam Rajappan, Dominic Kavungal, Kumbalam Ravi and Manoj Kumar participated in the meeting.
(The Hindu - 26/03/06)