Raigarh Media Certification and Monitoring Committee (MCMC) has issued notice to former IAS O P Choudhary who has joined the BJP, sitting MLA Roshan Agrawal and former MLA Hridayram Rathia, sitting MLA Umesh Patel besides 10 others after they allegedly posted publicity material in social media without prior permission from authorities. All have been asked to submit their reply within 24 hours.

As per information received, one youth put a post related to former IAS and BJP leader O P Choudhary, on social media seeking votes for O P Choudhary, where the post even had party election symbol.

Lailunga's former MLA Hridayram Rahtira, Janata Congress Chhattisgarh (Jogi) candidate Vibash Singh Thakur, Sunil Minj, Pawan Sharma, sitting MLA Roshan Agrawal had similar posts on social media, after which the notice was issued.

The notice mentions about the norms and standard procedure to be followed as per directive of Election Commission of India and it was mentioned that before posting the content, the Media Certification and Monitoring Committee permission was not taken.

Notices were issued twice to sitting MLA Roshan Agarwal along with seven others.

As per information received, O P Choudhary (BJP), Roshan Agrawal (MLA)-BJP, Vibash Singh Thakur –JCC(J), and Pawan Sharma and BJP IT Cell were served two notices, while Amar Agrawal of Aam Aadmi Party, Vijay Agrawal former MLA, Umesh Patel MLA-Kharsia, Sunil Minj, Ashish Tamrakar (BjP) and Hridayram Rathia –JCC(J) were served one notice each.

O P Choudhary did not respond to calls and reply to the SMS sent for confirmation and comments on the issue by The Pioneer.