The Election Commission on Wednesday clarified that it has no powers to ban opinion polls, and that it was for the government to act on its long-standing proposal to disallow dissemination of poll surveys from the date of notification of the election.
"We never hesitate to use a power that is available to us ...(but) you cannot expect the commission to use a power that is not available to it. Our view with regard to opinion polls is (that) this is something which falls within legislative competence ... So it for the legislature to make the decision," CEC V S Sampath told reporters when asked to clarify whether the media organizations could publish or broadcast opinion polls during the upcoming poll.
As per the existing norms, there are restrictions on broadcasting of opinion poll results during 48 hours prior to the end of polling. Experts pointed out that, technically, these restrictions may not apply to the print media.
EC had recently made a fresh appeal to the government to ban opinion polls, in the wake of a news channel claims that nearly 11 opinion poll companies secretly approached by it were willing to tweak their poll projections, purportedly for a fee. The EC wrote to the law ministry noting how its stand that opinion polls could be misused had been vindicated and sought an immediate ban on opinion polls during elections.
Interestingly, the Congress had moved EC seeking a ban on opinion polls in the wake of the "sting", even though its own government has been dragging its feet over the proposal.
Unlike opinion polls, exit polls will be banned until half an hour after the end of last phase of polling. This means that results of exit polls cannot be publicized in both print and electronic media until 5.30 pm on May 12.
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