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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in Canada, they have provided that you are free to do opinion polls, but gone ahead to put prohibition and possible penalties should you breach the Act. I will not bother about the penalty, which is in terms of jail and punishment, but I want to go on what we should think about as a House; that is, prohibition of publication. In this Bill, we are saying that 48 hours or two days to the polling day, there should be no publication of opinion poll results. But in Canada, they have said that it should be 72 hours or three days. So, that, that critical moment of 73 hours before voting, no publication should take place lest the voters get confused. In my Bill, I have provided that we do it for 48 hours or two days. I will be listening to contributions and if this House, in its own wisdom, feels that, that publication period of prohibition should be extended, I will only be too willing to join them in that amendment. Why? That is because in 20 other countries that I visited on the internet, I found out that they have done something even more wild. They have prohibited the publication of opinion poll results during the campaign period. By campaign period I mean that the moment candidates are nominated by the Electoral Commision to the day of polling, in our case 21 days, some of the countries have completely prohibited opinion polling. So, if this House chooses to go that route, then you would be suggesting that for three weeks before the date of the election, no pollster would be allowed to publish opinion polls."
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