EC to Karunanidhi: Stop social media campaign

May 15, 2016 20:28

The Election Commission has asked DMK chief Karunanidhi to suspend his social media campaign and sought a reply from him by May 17 regarding the notice that was issued to his party.

On Saturday, the EC had issued show cause notices to Jayalalithaa and Karunanidhi for violating model code, saying their parties' election manifestos did not "substantially" fulfil its guidelines. The notices had said that prima facie the manifestos of the two parties "have not substantially fulfilled the guidelines of the Commission".

The poll panel had given them time till 5 pm today to respond "to explain your stand for non-compliance of the guidelines of the Commission and also reflect the rationale for the promises made in your manifesto and broadly indicate the ways and means to meet the financial requirement for the same."

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