To,
PGRS Cell, ECI
Subject: Total Prohibition on use of Amplifiers, Banners and Roadside Stages in Election campaign
Dear ECI,
Thus, old ways of campaigning through amplifiers are redundant. If election time amplifier usage can totally be prohibited then it can be prohibited for religious purposes, too. Amplifiers disturbs students, agonizes patients, annoys children and elderly people, distract drivers and pedestrians. It causes disruptions in life.
Similarly, banners sprouting from any public pole and angle is redundant. Moreover, Banners are dangerous. April is the month of thunderstorm with unpredictable wind speeds. Last year, a thunderstorm suddenly sped to a hundred kilometer per hour. It plucked out all metal banners on reinforced concrete pillars across streets of Kolkata and its suburbs. Flex banners flew miles. If such an banner drops on windshield of a moving vehicle during a stormy weather condition on a busy bypasse, several lives can be lost. Campaign banners are generally stuck to weak soft wood sticks. Thus, heavy fles tears off its holder under weakest wind. Along with small flags, banners when torn, makes the streets dirty and chokes the drains. Therefore, banners must not be used anymore in election and, hence, in any other campaign.
Last but not the least, roadside campaign stages create road blockades. Such blockades are often replicated in religious ceremonies and personal celebrations. These stages block traffic. These are noisy campaigns disrupting lives of students, ill persons, elderly persons and children. These campaigns go hand in glove with use of amplifiers. Therefore, restricting campaign through gathering people to confined halls (used for puja, marriage, birthday celebration et cetera) and limiting noise of meeting within the precincts of the hall can reduce traffic risks and usage of amplifiers. Hence, please prohibit all roadside meetings.
Looking forward to quick and prompt action,
PGRS Cell, ECI
Subject: Total Prohibition on use of Amplifiers, Banners and Roadside Stages in Election campaign
We are already receiving campaign contents through text messages to our cell phones. Besides, there are election campaigns through social media, viz., FaceBook, WhatsApp and YouTube. Also, there are campaigns through advertising slots of Radio (FM and AM [short, mediam, broad waves]) and television. Messages from political parties, their conglomerates, individual candidates, candidates' aides are anyway before us all the time.
Thus, old ways of campaigning through amplifiers are redundant. If election time amplifier usage can totally be prohibited then it can be prohibited for religious purposes, too. Amplifiers disturbs students, agonizes patients, annoys children and elderly people, distract drivers and pedestrians. It causes disruptions in life.
Similarly, banners sprouting from any public pole and angle is redundant. Moreover, Banners are dangerous. April is the month of thunderstorm with unpredictable wind speeds. Last year, a thunderstorm suddenly sped to a hundred kilometer per hour. It plucked out all metal banners on reinforced concrete pillars across streets of Kolkata and its suburbs. Flex banners flew miles. If such an banner drops on windshield of a moving vehicle during a stormy weather condition on a busy bypasse, several lives can be lost. Campaign banners are generally stuck to weak soft wood sticks. Thus, heavy fles tears off its holder under weakest wind. Along with small flags, banners when torn, makes the streets dirty and chokes the drains. Therefore, banners must not be used anymore in election and, hence, in any other campaign.
Last but not the least, roadside campaign stages create road blockades. Such blockades are often replicated in religious ceremonies and personal celebrations. These stages block traffic. These are noisy campaigns disrupting lives of students, ill persons, elderly persons and children. These campaigns go hand in glove with use of amplifiers. Therefore, restricting campaign through gathering people to confined halls (used for puja, marriage, birthday celebration et cetera) and limiting noise of meeting within the precincts of the hall can reduce traffic risks and usage of amplifiers. Hence, please prohibit all roadside meetings.
Looking forward to quick and prompt action,
Thanking You,
Sanhita.
I agree wholeheartedly to each and every point. Amplifiers,banners and makeshift stàges on road, are a menace. Amplifiers are disturbing specially for the ill and the aged. You, the EC, can stop these during election time. Please take the initiative. It will create an example and will pave the way towards stopping unnecessary use of amplifiers and road platforms at othee times.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Ma'am for your valuable comment. Use of amplifiers, loudspeakers and banners and practice of roadblocking for religious and cultural festivals could not be halted if lawmakers including wannabe lawmakers keep using them and practising them respectively. Hence, the lawmakers and wannabes should be first to set example by putting an end to use of loudspeakers and banners and makeshift streetcorner stages.
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