Congress gets more time than BJP on DD

The Congress has been granted 190 minutes and BJP 165 minutes of air time on Doordarshan and All India Radio.

The Congress has been granted 190 minutes and BJP 165 minutes of air time on Doordarshan and All India Radio as part of its scheme of state funding of political parties through free use of state-owned television and radio for campaigning in the coming General Elections.

Under the scheme six national parties and 45 regional parties have been allotted a total of 125 hours for telecast/ broadcast over DD and AIR.

This also includes the ten minutes telecasting/ broadcasting time given to each regional party on regional satellite services channel of DD available to viewers across the whole counry and the national hook-up of AIR, according to an EC announcement.

Besides Congress and BJP, the four other national parties which have been made available the facility included CPI(M) 70 minutes, BSP 65 minutes, NCP 55 minutes and CPI 50 minutes.

Each party shall be given Time Vouchers of denomination of five minutes equal to the total time allotted to it for telecast on DD and broadcast on AIR.

The date and time of the telecast/broadcast shall be predetermined, by lot, by the Prasar Bharati Corporation in consultation with the Commission.