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Ensure protocols for election campaigns

The government has come up with Covid protocols for wedding venues. Only fully vaccinated guests will be allowed inside. Wedding halls are typically open-air venues with multiple entries and exits. This makes implementation of the protocols very tricky. This is one story, but on the other hand, there is no mention of protocols at election rallies and meetings which attract large crowds. Has the sarkar put in place a mechanism to check the vax certificates of the attendees? Door-to-door campaigns promising freebies are being run by the politicians which are nothing but enablers of the virus’ tandav of disease and death.  



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Act against public property defacers

GREGORY E D’SOUZA, Siolim
Published Jan 1, 2022, 12:03 AM IST
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When elections are near, political parties openly violate the defacement law by putting up banners on public properties without taking permission. Irrespective of who is the violator, the authority concerned should swoop down and punish the defacers. Political parties apart, some of the casino operators too have been putting up their advertisements on electricity poles. Posters for tourism promotion have not even spared religious properties. Such posters were seen erected on…

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