Elections in single phase | Counting on Oct 24 | Bypolls for 64 seats, including 4 in Punjab, 2 in HP22 Sep 2019 | 8:52 AMNEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Saturday announced single-phase Assembly elections in Haryana and Maharashtra on October 21 while the counting will take place on October 24. Announcing the dates at a press conference in New Delhi, Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora said the poll notification would be issued on September 27 while last date for withdrawing from the contest will be October 7.
[ + read story ] New Delhi, September 21
The Election Commission on Saturday announced single-phase Assembly elections in Haryana and Maharashtra on October 21 while the counting will take place on October 24.
Announcing the dates at a press conference in New Delhi, Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora said the poll notification would be issued on September 27 while last date for withdrawing from the contest will be October 7.
The key issues that are expected to dominate the polls include the abrogation of Article 370 to do away with the special powers granted to J&K, NRC and slowdown. The bypolls to 64 Assembly seats and one Lok Sabha constituency (Samastipur in Bihar) spread across 18 states, including four in Punjab and two in Himachal, will also be held on October 21.
The model code of conduct came into force immediately after the poll announcement.
Answering questions on the way social media narrative could change perceptions, Arora said they had spoken to social media giants, which had brought about a code of ethics. The commission would also monitor the social media, he said.
To a query on voter-verified paper audit trail, Arora said in the LS polls, only eight of the 22,000 machines faced a mechanical failure. The gap in number of votes in these machines was far too less than victory margins.
The states where Assembly bypolls are to be held are Karnataka (15 seats), UP (11); five each in Bihar and Kerala; four each in Punjab, Assam and Gujarat; three in Sikkim, two each in HP, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu and one seat each in Arunachal, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, MP, Meghalaya, Odisha and Puducherry. — TNS
The countdown begins
Sept 27 Poll notification to be issued
Oct 4 Last date of filing nominations
Oct 5 Scrutiny of nomination papers
Oct 7 Last date of withdrawal of candidature
19,425 Polling stations for nearly 1.82 cr voters in Haryana
95,473 Polling stations for over 8.95 cr voters in Maha
No one nation, one poll yet
While there is a debate on simultaneous polls, unless there is a very clear consensus amongst the political parties on the issue, this cannot be taken as a given template. —Sunil Arora, Chief Election Commissioner
22 Sep 2019 | 9:12 AMCHANDIGARH: A total of 1.82 crore voters will decide the fate of candidates in 90 Assembly seats of Haryana.
BYELECTIONS22 Sep 2019 | 7:10 AMCHANDIGARH: At stake is the prestige of all four key parties in Punjab where byelections will be held for the Phagwara, Mukerian, Dakha and Jalalabad Assembly seats on October 21.
BYELECTIONS22 Sep 2019 | 7:10 AMSHIMLA: With the EC announcing bypolls to Dharamsala and Pachaad Assembly seats in Himachal on October 21, arch-rivals ruling BJP and Opposition Congress have started zeroing in on candidates.
22 Sep 2019 | 7:10 AMMUMBAI:The Assembly elections in Maharashtra will be a contest between the ruling BJP-Shiv Sena combine and the Congress-NCP alliance.
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22 Sep 2019 | 8:05 AMPATIALA:Many well-to-do families in Punjab are learnt to have mastered the art of power pilferage, thus contributing to the around Rs 1,200-crore losses the state power utility has been incurring annually.
22 Sep 2019 | 7:10 AMSRINAGAR:The ongoing curbs on Internet services in the Kashmir valley took its toll today with the mechanical division of the state government cancelling an online bid it had invited despite the shutdown after it failed to receive any response.
22 Sep 2019 | 7:10 AMNEW DELHI:An accident involving motorsports star Gaurav Gill’s car during a rally resulted in the death of a family of three near Hotarda village this morning following which the “Rally of Jodhpur”, the third round of the Indian National Rally Championship (INRC), was cancelled.
22 Sep 2019 | 7:10 AMJAMMU:Police conducted raids at several places in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district and apprehended two overground workers (OGWs) of Jaish-e-Mohmmad (JeM) on the basis of leads provided by three arrested terrorists of the outfit in Kathua earlier, officials said on Saturday.
22 Sep 2019 | 7:10 AMNEW DELHI: Zoya Akhtar’s “Gully Boy”, featuring Ranveer Singh in the lead, has been selected as India’s official entry in the International Feature Film category at the 92nd Academy Awards, the Film Federation of India announced on Saturday.