Ludhiana 05 November 2013 -
BJP Kisan Morcha National Secretary and Parbhari Himachal Pardesh Sukhminderpal Singh Grewal while countering the Congress demand for banning opinion polls said that the psephology is still maturing in India and some opinion polls do go wrong but it does not mean they all should be banned. Talking with the media persons in his office here today, Grewal said that a ban on such polls cannot be considered based on who is demanding the ban. Clearly, opinion polls are also a part of "Right to freedom of speech and expression" of Indian Constitution. Restricting them is constitutionally neither permissible nor desirable. Grewal said that the opinion polls are only opinion polls but some of them have acquired credibility and some can easily be ignored. So why ever it may be the reliability or otherwise of these polls, can they be prohibited or banned. He said that many opinion polls conducted recently show as Prime Ministerial BJP candidate Narendra Modi ahead Rahul Gandhi is widely seen as the PM probable for Congress. Opinion polls on the ensuing Assembly elections show BJP as the clear winner in the BJP ruled states Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and the Congress ruled Rajasthan. Grewal stated that the polls can if be legitimately banned in India, the next step would be to ban political commentators from giving assessments favourable to some and adverse to some others. He said that the poll panel is best advised to keep away from this controversy and allow the market place of democracy to accept or reject the findings of opinion polls in India.
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