The Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party complained to the Election Commission on Monday against the launch of a new television channel named “NaMo TV” that allegedly violates the poll code. On Sunday, the BJP’s Twitter handle shared the channel’s launch information with the message: “Capture the colours of elections.… Watch the dance of democracy.… Say NaMo again with NaMo TV. It said a search of the I&B ministry website had revealed that neither “Namo TV” nor “Content TV” — the name apparently shown on the menu of some service providers for a while — found a mention on the list of “Permitted Private Satellite TV Channels (as updated and viewed on 30.03.2019)”. It added: “The commission is also left with no choice but to attribute the entire amount spent on the channel ‘Content TV’ to the account of the candidate Mr Narendra Modi. And in the instant case the blatant misuse of power in the nature of TV channels must be declared as such and must be treated accordingly under the law as it exists….

Source: The Telegraph April 01, 2019 21:56 UTC