Congress on Monday launched a listing of necessary tips for the October 17 presidential election. The election will see a troublesome contest between Congress veteran Mallikarjun Kharge and Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor for the publish of AICC chief.
Guidelines issued within the title of Madhusudan Mistry, President of the Central Election Authority of Congress, learn:
1. The State Returning Officers (PROs) would be the Polling Officers of their respective PCCs and can be answerable for sustaining order on the polling stations and observing the elections in a good method.
2. Congress leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor will contest the election of Congress President of their particular person capability. Therefore, the delegates are free to decide on any one in all them, via poll, as per their selection.
3. AICC General Secretary/In-Charge, Secretary/Joint Secretary, PCC President, CLP Leader, Head of Frontal Organisation. Heads of departments/cells and all official spokespersons shall not marketing campaign for or towards the contesting candidates. If they need to help a candidate they have to first resign from their organizational place, then they’ll take part within the marketing campaign course of.
4. All PCC Presidents shall present courtesy to the candidates throughout their visits to the respective States.
5. The candidates who want to arrange the assembly of the PCC representatives, the PCC President will prepare the assembly corridor, chairs and different equipments for the general public announcement. However, no such assembly may be known as by the PCC President in his private capability. It is the job of the proposer or the supporters of the contesting candidates to arrange the assembly.
6. During the election, no candidate shall use a car carrying voters or resort to unsolicited pamphleteering or every other type of publicity, propaganda. Violators of those procedures will invalidate the election of candidates and make them liable to disciplinary motion.
7. Extreme care ought to be taken to make sure that there isn’t any malicious marketing campaign towards any candidate. This will carry disrepute to the occasion. The sensitivity of the election course of should be maintained at any value.
Voting for the publish of Congress President can be held on October 17. The counting of votes will happen on October 19 and the outcomes can be declared on the identical day. More than 9,000 Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) representatives will vote within the election.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
