14.9.15

Bihar poll aspirants ride Nepal airwaves

Sagar Suraj / HT
The Bihar assembly elections have brought unexpected windfall to FM stations in Nepal. Poll aspirants were keeping business rolling inside radio stations with doors closed tight and windows blackened because of curfew in the Madhesi areas of Nepal. The wannabes represent the entire political spectrum.
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The Nepalese FM channels are favoured because they come cheap, offer a wide range of choice and cover more than 100 constituencies. What’s more, the Election Commission has not been able to charge the self-promoting “advertisers” with any excess poll-related expenditure. “We cannot take action because of the absence of guidelines on dealing with foreign radios,” the poll official in Motihari said. more

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