NaMo TV goes off air after LS polls

NaMo TV, a BJP-sponsored channel that publicised Prime Minister NarendraModi’s rallies and other poll messages, has gone off air, party sources said.

They said it went off air on May 17 when all campaigns for the LokSabha election came to an end.

A BJP leader, requesting anonymity, said, “NaMo TV was meant as a tool of BJP campaign for the LokSabha election. With the polls over, it is no longer needed, so effectively from May 17, when all campaign has to be paused, it has also gone off air.” The channel was mired in controversy ever since it went on air.

The chief electoral officer of Delhi had sent a notice to the BJP for “airing election-related content” on NaMo TV even after the silence period began, but the party had said they did not violate the model code of conduct.