Monday, November 17, 2008: After the Church-sponsored Mizoram People's Forum (MPF) prohibited holding of public meetings by individual candidates, electronic media in Mizoram are having a field day by holding interviews with the candidates which is televised through the local television channels at nights.
Candidates of a particular seat are interviewed in a day where journalists and political party workers are allowed to ask questions about development of the state and their respective constituents.
Political debates are also held inside the studios of the local television channels like the Zonet, LPS and Skylinks and the debates are sometimes televised live.
Even joint public meetings held inside a constituency under the watchful eye of the MPF are also covered by the local television channels and telecasted live.
Some political parties and candidates are using mobile phones and internet for canvassing and the Zoram Nationalist Party (ZNP) maintained its own website and also sent out news about the election in general and about the progress of the party in particular by SMS to the voters.
The MPF not only banned holding of public meetings by individual candidates, street concerts to pull crowd by political parties, door-to-door campaigns and holding of community feasts are also prohibited.
Press Trust of India
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