 "Tamil Nadu Assembly polls: EC should ban opinion polls, says CPI")
Communist Party of India (CPI) on Tuesday demanded that the Election Commission (EC) ban opinion polls, alleging that it is taken to favour a particular political party and there is no genuine opinion poll.
CPI state secretary R Mutharasan told reporters here that some newspapers and visual media are telecasting and publishing such polls, which he said, was totally wrong.
Asked about the prospects of the four-party People's Welfare Front (PWF) in the May 16 Assembly polls, he said that he is optimistic they would secure all 234 seats and form a coalition government, "as the youth and women are backing the PWF candidates."
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Referring to the GAIL project to lay pipelines across seven districts of the state, which will reportedly affect farmers, he said that the prime minister during his visit to Tamil Nadu for campaigning, should explain the union government's stand on it, as the Supreme Court had given the nod to GAIL.
Since lakhs of farmers would be affected, the Centre should instruct GAIL, a public sector unit, to lay pipelines on national highways, so that farmers' lands would be saved, he said.
The prime minister should find a permanent solution to the fishermen's issue in Tamil Nadu and also announce conduct of the bull sport Jallikattu, he said.