National president of the newly-launched Swaraj India party Yogendra Yadav advised Election Commission to come into action during the remaining four years and eleven months of the election period as well. Welcoming the order, Yadav told that the directive should have come earlier, adding that the scope of this order should be expanded too. "Election Commission comes into action, only during the last week of the election period. Earlier, The Election Commission ordered that no political party will be allowed to use public funds and government machinery to carry out activities that amount to advertisement for it. The commission also clarified that any violation of the directions will be treated as violation of a lawful direction of the Commission.

Source: dna October 08, 2016 12:00 UTC