New Delhi: Team Anna’s conduct will be monitored during the Assembly elections in five states, Chief Election Commissioner S Y Quraishi said today, adding that its campaign against a “particular party” could become an issue of propriety.
“They (Team Anna) will be monitored like everybody else,” Dr Quraishi told a news channel.”So far, they have not violated any election law as they did not say that vote for Y instead of X. They only said they w
ill only boycott a particular party. Although there is no legal violation, we did mention to them there could be an issue of propriety,” he said. Elections to the Manipur, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Goa Assemblies will be held between January 28 and March 3 next year, it was announced yesterday.
