Silence period to begin for one am Saturday

<p><span style="line-height: 1.42857;">The election Commission (EC) has said that ‘silence period’ for the third phase of local level elections to be held in Province 2 will start from &nbsp;midnight today.</span><br></p><p><br></p><p>Issuing a press statement, EC said today that political parties, their electoral candidates, office bearers, independent candidates, civil society, voters including the media should refrain from elections-related publicity until the voting comes to an end.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>The parties should stay away from holding election campaigns and stop using SMS, Facebook and Vibor to ask for votes.</p><p><br></p><p><b>Chief commissioner</b></p><p><br></p><p>Chief election commissioner Ayodhi Prasad Yadab has said that commission is committed to conduct the third phase of local polls in free fair and fearless environment.</p><p><br></p><p>At an interactin program in the capital today, he said commission would take stringent action to the code of conduct violators.</p>