CEO awaits ECI guidelines to implement SC verdict

PANJIM: The CEO is awaiting guidelines from the Election Commission of India to act on the recent directives issued by the Supreme Court that ruled votes in the name of religion, race, caste, community or language should not be allowed to play any role in the electoral process.

“We are expected to soon receive clear guidelines from ECI on how to implement the order. The SC order will definitely be followed,” he stated.
The State has seen political developments in the recent past on the language issue with two groups at loggerheads over medium of instruction at the primary schools. The language issue gave rise to a new political outfit – Goa Suraksha Manch – supported by the Bharatiya Bhasha Suraksha Manch that earlier backed BJP in 2012 elections.

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