Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Monday said that the party is not in favour of banning opinion polls, and added that the Election Commission should convene an all-party meet to discuss this issue.
"We are not in favour of this. The opinions can vary one or two percent. We are against the restriction on opinion polls. This is not a democratic way. This is against the freedom of expression. And if the Election Commission feels this step is necessary, it should convene an all-party meet to discuss this issue," he said.
The Congress Party has written to the Election Commission (EC) to restrict opinion polls ahead of the elections.
The legal department of the Congress Party stated that opinion polls can be misused, and they are not scientific or credible.
The Congress, however, shifted from its earlier stand, where it dismissed the proposal of the Election Commission to ban opinion polls.
The opinion polls have been projecting poor show of the Congress in some states where Assembly Elections are scheduled to take place.
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