Dimapur, March 17 (EMN): State chief electoral officer (CEO), Abhijit Sinha, in an office memorandum, stated that the state level media certification and monitoring committee (MCMC) has been reconstituted for conduct of general election to the Lok Sabha 2019.
The committee would be headed by CEO Abhijit Sinha as chairperson, and the joint chief electoral officer Khekugha Sema as member secretary, along with one observer appointed by the ECI, director IPR Limawati Ao, deputy director of AIR Kohima Shahu Patole, general secretary of Kohima press club Alice Yhoshu, and senior programme office of IT and C Ruokuovizo Chupuo as members.
According to the memorandum, the state level MCMC would perform two sets of functions: (i) Deciding appeal from both District and Addl.CEO Committees on Certification of advertisement as per the Commission order No.509/75/2004/JS-I Dated 15th April 2004 (Copy enclosed), and (ii) Examining all cases of paid news on appeal against the decision of district MCMC or cases that may take up suo-motu, in which case it shall direct the concerned ROs to issue notices to the candidates.
