Returning Officers told to dispose of pleas in 24 hrs

Hyderabad:  Dana Kishore, DEO & Commissioner, GHMC directed all the Returning Officers (Ros) to issue permissions to political parties with regard to representations submitted by them for Model Code of Conduct within 24 hours rather than 48 hours, and in case they cannot be given the permissions within 24 hours,  they may explain the consequences to the representatives of the political parties. This is in response to the queries made by the political parties that permissions are being delayed more than 28 hours causing much problems to deal with padayathras.
 
The DEO instructed the ROs to conduct regular meetings with the political parties to have a better coordination and interaction with them at regular intervals. A permanent representative phone number may be taken from the political parties so that the information can be given well in advance without any problems in dealing with model code of conduct issues. The DEO informed the representatives of political parties that from November 2 to 5  there would be special meetings with the BLOs in this context. He requested the political parties to depute one representative from their party to coordinate with each BLO to work together to have a clear understanding while performing the duties. 
As per the request of the representatives,  the Commissioner assured that a proforma will be given to the BLOs on  DO’s and DONT’s while performing the duties to have a clear transparency with regard to various issues of election process.

The representatives also requested the DEO that some of the officers at the ground and as well as in some levels are not extending their cooperation and need strict instructions to follow discipline code during interaction with them. Responding to the request made, the DEO said that model code of conduct is for everybody and   political parties or officials are same. Ravi, Joint Collector Hyderabad and Nodal Officer, Hari Chandana, Zonal Commissioner & Nodal Officer,  Viswajeet Kampati, Director (Vigilance), Returning Officers, ACPs and senior officials of the GHMC along with various representatives of the political parties met at GHMC head office to fix tariff rates on advertisements etc., and also on the model code of conduct.