What role can national and international (like BBC) media play to help hold the constituent assembly elections successfully?
Media certainly have an important role to play. Constituent assembly election is a political agenda. The government, parties and other concerned agencies should have communicated with people in various aspects such as why is this being held, what is being done and how is this going to be held. However, you must have noticed that the media have literally taken over the responsibility of publicity of the election. There have been no talks and campaigns on this issue from the political circle. The political debates have been limited within few subjects related to peace process. The Election Commission has been repeatedly calling on the political parties to reach out to the electorate with their campaigns. But only the media have been informing people that constituent assembly election scheduled to be held on November 22. In some cases the Maoists say the national and international media mostly report their negative aspects and that they are giving more priority to anti-Maoist news. Do you
