Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Vikas Raj said that the election authority has been educating political parties about the provisions of the model code of conduct and is taking action as and when violations of the MCC came to their notice.
He was replying to a question about the rally taken out by BJP MLA T. Raja Singh on Wednesday, and the reported provocative gestures made by BJP’s Hyderabad Lok Sabha candidate G. Madhavi Latha. At a press conference on Thursday, he said that the election authority had not received any complaint on the issue so far. It had however, identified sensitive places not only in Hyderabad but other places, and polling stations in these areas had been declared as critical.
“The Election Commission has issued advisories from time to time on sensitive areas and 9,900 polling stations across the State have been identified as sensitive,” he said. This was in addition to 51 Assembly constituencies which were identified as expenditure sensitive.
