TelanganaChief Electoral Officer Rajat Kumar Tuesday directed Collectors, district election officers and commissioner of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, to take action as per law, against those causing disturbance to any election public meetings.
The CEO told them that he was receiving a number of complaints that election meetings held by political parties, were being disturbed or obstructed, an official release said.
Kumar said the DEOs may invoke relevant rules and provisions of IPC, CrPC etc to see that political meetings are held peacefully in the period leading up to the December 7 assembly polls.
Meanwhile, Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee chief spokesperson SravanDasojuTuesday found fault with the reported comments of the CEO that the services of policemen from Andhra Pradesh would not be utilised for the elections,
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