Congress rattled by results of opinion polls

Let us assume that the Election Commission of India decides to play along with the Congress and bans opinion polls. Let us also assume that the political class ‘respects’ the election panel’s decision and goes along with it despite the reservations that quite a few parties have on the issue. What happens if the media — both the print and the electronic versions — defies the Election Commission’s directive and goes ahead with the surveys on the premise that it is not obliged to follow the commission’s directive that militates against the right to free speech? It would lead to a legal technicality.

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