{"id":60875,"date":"2019-05-08T11:46:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T11:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=60875"},"modified":"2019-05-08T11:46:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T11:46:29","slug":"model-code-of-conduct-does-not-take-away-the-right-to-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/model-code-of-conduct-does-not-take-away-the-right-to-free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Model Code of Conduct does not take away the right to free speech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The  Model Code of Conduct is an extremely important and powerful instrument  available to the Election Commission for the conduct of free and fair  elections, which draws its strength from Article 324 of the Constitution  of India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Expansive reach of MCC may actually run it in the \ndanger of being questioned for its constitutionality in relation to free\n speech. To avoid such a situation, the memorialist must keep in mind \nthat the Right to Free Speech has not been diluted in any way by the \nMCC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another case relates to the Gandhi Family principle of \nrestrictive free speech. They can call even an honest Prime Minister a \n&#8216;Chor.&#8217;&nbsp; However, others don&#8217;t possess this right.\n\n<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Model Code of Conduct is an extremely important and powerful instrument available to the Election Commission for the conduct of free and fair elections, which draws its strength from Article 324 of the Constitution of India. Expansive reach of MCC may actually run it in the danger of being questioned for its constitutionality in [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60877,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60875\/revisions\/60877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}