Kohima, October 30 (MExN): The Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Nagaland, Abhijit Sinha on Friday informed of the notification issued by Election Commission of India (ECI) regarding exit polls in connection with the bye-elections to the Nagaland Legislative Assembly from 14-Southern Angami-I (ST) and 60-Pungro-Kiphire (ST) Assembly Constituencies (ACs).
According to the ECI notification issued on October 14, the period between 6:00 am on November 3 to 6:30 pm on November 7 has been notified as the period during which conducting any exit poll and publishing or publicizing by means of the print or electronic media or dissemination in any other manner whatsoever, the result of any exit poll in connection with the bye-elections to the Nagaland Legislative Assembly from 14-Southern Angami-I (ST) and 60-Pungro-Kiphire (ST) ACs shall be prohibited.
It further clarified that under Section 126(1)(b) of the R.P. Act, 1951, displaying any election matter including results of any opinion poll or any other poll survey, in any electronic media, would be prohibited during the period of 48 hours ending with the hours fixed for conclusion of poll for the aforesaid bye-elections.
