New Delhi: The election election commission Monday shifted the date of voting for the election of the Punjab assembly until February 20 since February 14, considering the requests received from several political parties and the state government to postpone voting on several days in the view of Teacher Ravidas Jayanti February 16.
According to the new schedule, January 25 will be a date for Notification of Polling, February 1 February the last date of submission nomination, February 2, date of supervision of nomination, February 2 The last date for withdrawal, and on February 20.
The date of the calculation remained unchanged on March 10 voters who were followers of Teacher Ravidas and travel from Punjab to Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh for a week to coincide with Gurupurab.
Stating that a large number of voters usually go for Varanasi a week before Ravidas Jayanti and therefore will miss the voting is a poll held on February 14, they begged the EC to consider delaying polling days in Punjab at least six days, by the followers of Teacher Ravidas will return.
The Election Assembly 2022: Complete poll schedule “After considering these new facts emerged from this representation, input from the state government and election head, preferably prioritized and all the facts and circumstances in this matter, now the Commission has decided to reschedule general elections For the Punjab legislature, “EC stated while moving a poll in Punjab to February 20.
The sources told TII that EC had originally chosen February 14 as a voting date for Punjab after considering all festivals, agricultural tests, etc.
Also consider Teacher Ravidas Jayanti while preparing for a schedule and decided to schedule a poll in front of the festival.
According to the Secretary General of Punjab BJP, Punjab has a substantial population of followers of Teacher Ravidas, many of which belong to the caste scheduled to make up 32% of the country’s population.
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