Tamil Nadu and West Bengal Rush to Announce Welfare Schemes Before EC Declares Poll Dates

Tamil Nadu and West Bengal Rush to Announce Welfare Schemes Before EC Declares Poll Dates Tamil Nadu CM E Palaniswami on Friday ...

Tamil Nadu and West Bengal Rush to Announce Welfare Schemes Before EC Declares Poll Dates

Tamil Nadu CM E Palaniswami on Friday announced a gold loan waiver, hours before the Election Commission is scheduled to announce the data for assembly polls in the state, which will bring a model code of conduct into place. The state government announced that gold loans against upto six sovereigns by cooperative banks to farmers and poor will be waived.

The announcement comes hours before election Commission would release the poll dates for 4 states and one UT including Tamil Nadu at 4:30 pm on Friday. The Model Code of Conduct (MCC) laid down by the ECI will come into effect once the dates for the elections are announced. To ensure that no new announcements or orders on welfare schemes are issued after election notification, the state’s chief election officer directed all department secretaries to draw a line after the last order in the GO register soon after announcement is made by CEC Sunil Arora.