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No proposal under consideration to ban opinion polls: GovernmentIn his written response, Rijiju said in order to have free and fair elections in the country, there exists a restriction on the conduct of ...
16 Dec, 2022, 04.21 PM IST
Private funding of parties root of corruption, needs to be banned: SY QuraishiAmidst continuing debate over funding of political parties, SY Quraishi said there is a dire need to ban pvt funding of parties to check me...
25 Apr, 2014, 10.43 PM IST
Election Commission cannot ban opinion polls: SampathThe Election Commission cannot ban broadcast and publication of opinion polls, Chief Election Commissioner V S Sampath said today.
30 Mar, 2014, 11.13 PM IST
Election Commission to seek probe into sting operation on opinion pollsThe EC will also make a fresh pitch for banning of opinion polls by drawing the attention of the law ministry, information & broadcasting m...
01 Mar, 2014, 01.13 PM IST
Regulate, don’t ban opinion pollsThe lay audience for such opinion poll findings is unaware of the qualifications, and gets misled. But this is a case for regulation, not a...
27 Feb, 2014, 05.13 AM IST
Election Commission should take 'hard decisions' on opinion polls: Kapil SibalSibal today said the Election Commission should take "hard decisions" if it finds that opinion polls are used to further the cause of parti...
26 Feb, 2014, 10.29 PM IST
Government to decide on banning opinion polls after consulting stakeholdersGovernment today indicated that it will take a final call on banning opinion polls only after consulting "stakeholders".
12 Feb, 2014, 03.02 PM IST
Election Commission again asks government to ban opinion polls from notification dayThe Election Commission has written to the Ministry of Law and Justice for a ban on opinion polls from the date of notification of election...
15 Nov, 2013, 06.44 PM IST
Should opinion polls on elections be banned?From being in the news, opinion polls have become the news, Congress, which is being routed in most opinion polls in recent times, wants th...
13 Nov, 2013, 05.03 AM IST
In 2004, BJP favoured ban on opinion polls: Former election commissionersFormer ECs TS Krishnamurthy and N Gopalaswami have told ET that all six national parties, including the BJP, favoured some sort of a ban ba...
07 Nov, 2013, 03.51 AM IST
- Lokjanshakti Party backs Congress on opinion poll ban
Lokjanshakti Party (LJP) President Ramvilas Paswan supported Congress in banning opinion and exit polls which it said generally goes wrong.
05 Nov, 2013, 07.08 PM IST
As Congress calls for ban on exit poll, Narendra Modi counters ‘why not ban EC & courts too’"If they lose an election they may then seek a ban on the EC and if the courts do not support them then they may say why not ban the courts...
05 Nov, 2013, 03.00 AM IST
More parties back demand for ban on opinion pollsA number of political parties joined Congress in seeking a ban or regulation on opinion polls during the election process while BJP opposed...
04 Nov, 2013, 09.47 PM IST
Law Ministry asks EC to consult parties afresh on opinion poll banSibal sent the file back to EC asking it to consult the parties again and seek their views afresh on the issue.
02 Oct, 2013, 06.06 PM IST
No move to ban opinion polls at this time: Kapil SibalEarlier, sources in the government had said any decision to ban opinion polls will be taken after consulting the Election Commission.
24 Sep, 2013, 12.35 PM IST