Media Dossier
As Election Days
Draw Near
Call for Eco-friendly
Poll Campaigning
Grows Louder
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28 March 2024, Kolkata, West Bengal
Details of The Event
As election campaigns started across the country, environmentalists demand that political parties take the digital and other non-conventional ways of electioneering to minimize the impact of non-biodegradable poll materials on nature.
�Political parties should rely mostly on social media to reach voters and shun flexes and plastic flags that litter streets once the polling is over and many a time reach waterbodies polluting them or block drains causing them to overflow.
� Shifting to the digital mode for election campaigning should not be a distant dream in the present age as mobile phones with internet are available even in remote areas of the country.
Car rallies cause air pollution, use of microphones creates sound pollution while posters and banners do not increase the beauty of an area, the green brigade says calling for their abolition.
The Election Commission last year said it is also concerned with the issue of environmental hazards caused by use of non-biodegradable materials during polls.
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