Congress asks EC to ban opinion polls after poor pre-poll showing While most political parties are in the habit of dismissing opinion polls before elections as spurious, the Congress has gone a step ahead and demanded a ban on all such polls. According to a report on CNN-IBN, the party has wrote to the Election Commission saying that such surveys are ‘erroneous’, ‘lack credibility’ and are almost always ‘manipulated’. “In fact the opinion polls during election are neither scientific nor is there any transparent process for such polls,” said the Secretary of the AICC Legal and Human Rights Department K C Mittal in the party’s official response to the EC. In a letter to the presidents and general secretaries of parties, the EC had written, “The Commission desires that the views of your political party on the proposal to prohibit conducting opinion polls and disseminating results thereof during the election period may be communicated to the Commission. This may kindly be done latest by October 21, 2013.” Read NaMo blogs on Congress suggestion to ban opinion polls here: bit.ly/184sTwn
Posted on: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 08:30:01 +0000
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