NEW DELHI: The Election Fee (EC) is ready to announce the ballot dates for meeting elections in Maharashtra and Jharkhand on Tuesday. The announcement will probably be made throughout a press convention at 3.30 pm.
With a number of upcoming festivals, together with Diwali from October 29 to November 3, Chhath, and Dev Deepawali, the EC is prone to schedule the polling within the second week of November.It will permit voters, notably these briefly migrating for the festivals, ample time to return to their registered voting places.
The elections will cowl over 45 meeting seats throughout numerous states and embrace bypolls for the Lok Sabha seats of Wayanad and Basirhat. Wayanad’s seat turned vacant following Rahul Gandhi’s resignation, whereas the Basirhat bypoll is because of the dying of Trinamool MP Sheikh Nurul Islam.
Maharashtra’s legislative time period ends on November 26, and Jharkhand’s meeting time period concludes on January 5, 2025. The EC might conduct fewer polling phases in Jharkhand this yr, having beforehand lowered the variety of phases in Jammu and Kashmir elections.
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