Guwahati: The Electronic Media Forum Assam (EMFA) on Thursday urged the Election Authority of India for providing the facility of postal ballots for the city based media persons during the forthcoming Assam Legislative Assembly election, scheduled for April 4 and 11.
The media forum pointed out that there are thousands of media employees, including journalists in Guwahati, who work for over 20 morning news dailies, around hundred periodicals, five satellite news channels and the few entertainment electronic media outlets. However, most of these media employees living in Guwahati are non-natives to the city and they have their voting rights in their native home towns or villages. “There should be more than 4,000 media persons along with their eligible family members who do not have their names in the voters list of greater Guwahati.
They often miss the opportunity to vote as they cannot leave the station on the poll dates due to their crucial duties to cover the election. Thus valuable votes often go waste,” said a statement issued by the EMFA here. (UNI)
