Haryana chief electoral officer Anurag Aggarwal said that in compliance to the instructions of Election Commission of India, 65,146 wall writings, posters, papers cutouts or hoardings, banners, flags and others types have been removed from government property to prevent its defacement.
Giving further details, Aggarwal said that 4,964 wall writings, 17,553 posters, 7,543 papers of defacement in any form, 1,833 cut-outs, 12,061 hoardings, 11,837 banners, 3,296 flags and 6,059 other forms of defacement, have been removed within 24 hours from the announcement of elections.
He said that all unauthorized political advertisement, in the form of wall writings, posters, papers of defacement in any other form, cutouts or hoardings, banners and flags at public property and in public space like railway station, bus stands, airports, railway bridges, roadways, government buses, electric or telephone poles, municipal or local bodies’ building would be removed within 48 hours by the Commission.
All unauthorized political advertisement displayed at private property and subject to local Law and courts’ directions, if any, would be removed within 72 hours from the announcement of elections, he added.