Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has nominated 42 monitoring officers in the district for the monitoring of observance of code of conduct for the election campaign of general elections 2018. According to the notification issued in this regard, the Deputy Commissioner Faisalabad would be the District Monitoring Officer.
In this regard a meeting was held under the chairmanship of Deputy Commissioner Syed Ahmed Fawad to apprise the monitoring officers of their responsibilities about the supervision of implementation of code of conduct issued by the Election Commission of Pakistan for the election campaign. Deputy Commissioner asked the monitoring officers to perform their duties about the monitoring as a national task for the holding of peaceful, transparent, free and fair elections by the ECP.
He stressed upon them for daily visit at their area of assignments and to submit their reports on prescribed proforma in case of any violation of code of conduct. He gave the details of different sections of the code of conduct. He informed that the candidates can display posters of 18x23 inches size, 9x6 inches hand bills, 3x9 feet banners and 2x3 feet portraits while ban has been imposed on advertising through hoardings, bill boards, wall chalking and panaflex. He informed the corner meetings have been allowed in the election campaign but carrying and displaying of arms have been restricted.
The Deputy Commissioner asked monitoring officers to send the snaps along with their report through their mobile phones regarding any violation of code of conduct. He directed the ACs and other concerned officers to provide the copies of the code of conduct issued by the ECP to the contesting candidates for their information and implementation.