Full- Ballot Physique Possible To Tour Jammu and Kashmir On March 13
New Delhi: The Election Fee (EC) will resume its assessment of states’ preparedness for the Lok Sabha polls with a go to to Odisha afterward Thursday and full the method in Jammu and Kashmir on March 13, sources mentioned. It’s going to go to Jammu and Kashmir on March 13, the sources mentioned.
In January, the Fee reviewed the preparations in Andhra Pradesh, the place Lok Sabha and meeting polls might be held collectively.
Fee led by Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar and comprising Election Commissioner Arun Goel might be in Odisha Thursday evening, the sources mentioned.
In addition to Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh will see simultaneous parliamentary and meeting polls.
The panel will even be touring West Bengal, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, in addition to different states. It’s going to go to Jammu and Kashmir on March 13, the sources mentioned.
The Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir has a provision for a legislative meeting however is underneath central rule.
The Supreme Court docket had final 12 months requested the EC to carry meeting polls in Jammu and Kashmir by September 2024.
It’s traditional for the EC to tour states forward of meeting or Lok Sabha elections to fulfill political events, senior police and administrative officers and its floor ballot equipment.
However there have been exceptions prior to now when the EC has visited a poll-bound state after asserting the election schedule.
It’s, nevertheless, not but sure whether or not the EC will go to all of the states and union territories. It could skip states the place meeting polls had been held not too long ago.
In 2019, the Lok Sabha elections had been introduced on March 10 and held in seven phases from April 11 to Might 19. Votes had been counted on Might 23.
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