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It is one more day to go CA election is held. Election Commission (EC), in its code of conduct (CoC) has strongly mentioned that political parties are not allowed to organize voting campaign during the silence period which is effective from April 8 and ends when the polling center are closed down on 10 April.

Silence period is part of code of conduct which has to follow strongly by all parties including responsible media for free and fair election. However, some media owner and management are not fully aware of what the intention behind the silence period is. So that they stopped dissemination of information in relation to the CA election. The meaning of silence period is not media are not allowed to disseminate information in relation to the voter education. This time thousands of young are going to election booth to cast their vote for the first time and on another hand those who had voted in previous election also casting their votes in two different ballet papers. So that almost of them even don't know how to cast the vote properly. For instant last night I watched the television program where most of young were asking to spokesperson of EC that how they can cast their vote, and other procedures of election. That clearly means that people need information about voter eduction. But it seems that media houses including state owned media institutions are only paying their attention for disseminating hottest news and event rather than informing audience, readers and viewers on voting eduction considering that if they do that way it will be against of silence period and so that they have to face the legal action if they don't abide by code of conduct. But according the EC silence period is not what does not allow to disseminate that sort of information.