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EC should relax code of conduct in public interest: Gehlot

Public works and plans which were completed before the notification of the polls should be allowed to be undertaken by the EC,suggests Ashok Gehlot.

Rajasthan Chief Minsiter Ashok Gehlot said on Tuesday that people suffer due to non-implementation of welfare projects during the poll process and asked the Election Commission to relax the model code of conduct in public interest.

Despite facing problems of water scarcity,hurdles in famine relief work,and other weather related difficulties including crop damage due to hailstorms in Rajasthan,nothing can be reviewed with the model code of conduct in force,Gehlot told reporters in Jaipur.

Public works and plans which were completed before the notification of the polls should be allowed to be undertaken by the EC,Gehlot suggested.

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