BY ORDER OF ECI
The Election Commission has decided that during the period when Model Code of Conduct is in force during election period of General/by-election to the Lok Sabha and State Legislative Assembly currently going on, all references of Ministers, Politicians or Political Parties, available on such Central/State governments' official websites, shall be removed
PANAJI: If instructions are taken seriously (they normally are when the Model Code of Conduct is in force) by heads and admins of websites of government departments, State-owned Corporations and other Autonomous Bodies, names of Goa's ministers and all references to them will disappear from the official websites in the coming days.
Heads of all government departments, State-owned corporations and autonomous bodies have been directed to delete the names of ministers and all references to them, other politicians and political parties from official sites in a circular issued on Monday by IT Department chief, Srinet Kotawale, (IAS).
Kotawale has quoted the Election Commission's instruction and even attached an extract of it to the circular he issued on Monday. Kotawale's circular follows instructions from the Election Commission of India relating to deletion of names and all references to politicians, ministers and/or political parties as per provisions of the Model Code of Conduct.
"The Election Commission has decided that during the period when Model Code of Conduct is in force during election period of General/by-election to the Lok Sabha and State Legislative Assembly currently going on, all references of Ministers, Politicians or Political Parties, available on such Central/State governments' official websites, shall be removed," states The Election Commission's instruction quoting the clause VII (iv) of the Model Code of Conduct.
