Assembly Election 2022 Dates, UP, Punjab, Goa, Manipur, Uttarakhand Election Full Schedule: The Election Commission of India today sounded the poll bugle for assembly elections in five states of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Manipur and Goa. While Uttar Pradesh will vote in seven phases from February 10 to March 7, Uttarakhand, Goa and Punjab will vote in a single phase on February 14. Voting in Manipur, on the other hand, will be held in two phases on February 27 and March 3, Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra said, adding that the counting of votes will be held on March 10. Elections will be held in 403 assembly seats in UP, 117 in Punjab, 70 in Uttarakhand, 60 in Manipur and 40 in Goa. While the Bharatiya Janata Party faces the challenge to retain its government in four of these five poll-bound states, Punjab is expected to witness a four-cornered contest.
Elections in these five states, the third round after Bihar and West Bengal in the shadow of the pandemic, will be held amid strict Covid-19 protocols, CEC Chandra said, advising caution over panic to ensure the safe conduct of polls. The measures announced to this effect include a ban on all poll rallies till January 15 and curbs on political gatherings, door-to-door campaigns, nukkad sabhas, among others. The CEC said that to ensure the safety of officials involved in the poll process, all poll officials will be treated as frontline workers and also be administered booster vaccine doses. The CEC said that conducting elections amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is a challenge, but the decision to go ahead was taken after detailed deliberations with all stakeholders.
Assembly Election 2022 Dates, Schedule Updates: Punjab, Goa, Manipur, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh (UP) Assembly Election Dates Announcement Highlights
Assembly Election 2022 Dates, Schedule Live Updates: BJP president J P Nadda on Saturday expressed confidence that his party will emerge victorious in the assembly polls in five states with a big majority, soon after the Election Commission announced the poll schedule. People will again bless the BJP, which will return to power with big majority and take development works to new heights, he said.
Goa Assembly Election 2022 Dates Announced: Check key details here
The Election Commission of India today announced poll dates for 60 seats of the Manipur assembly. Read: Manipur Election 2022 Dates, Results, Time, Exit Poll, Full Schedule, All you want to know
The Election Commission of India today announced the poll dates for Uttar Pradesh. Read: Uttar Pradesh Election 2022 Dates, Full Schedule: Polling in seven phases from February 10, results on March 10
Assembly Election 2022 Dates, Schedule Live Updates: Check full poll schedule of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur
Assembly Election 2022 Dates, Schedule Live Updates: Manipur to vote in two phases; Goa, Punjab, Uttarakhand in single phase
Assembly Election 2022 Dates, Schedule Live Updates: UP to vote in seven phase
Assembly Election 2022 Dates, Schedule Live Updates: First phase voting in Uttar Pradesh on Feb 10
Assembly Election 2022 Dates, Schedule Live Updates: Notification to be issued from January 14, says CEC
Assembly Election 2022 Dates, Schedule Live Updates: Only five person allowed for door to door campaigning, says EC
Assembly Election 2022 Dates, Schedule Live Updates: More virtual rallies should be done, says EC
Assembly Election 2022 Dates, Schedule Live Updates: No roadshow and rallies, padyatra, bicycle, vehicle rally allowed till January, says EC
Assembly Election 2022 Dates, Schedule Live Updates: All polling booths will be fully sanitized, says CEC Chandra
Assembly Election 2022 Dates, Schedule Live Updates: Holding timely election essence of maintaining democratic governance, says CEC Chandra
Assembly Election 2022 Dates, Schedule Live Updates: CEC Chandra urges voters to use C-vigil app to report model code violations
Assembly Election 2022 Dates, Schedule Live Updates: EVMs to have VVPAT, says Election Commission
Assembly Election 2022 Dates, Schedule Live Updates: EC to monitor candidate's expenditure, says CEC Chandra. Candidates allowed to spent Rs 40 lakh in Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand and Rs 28 lakh in Manipur and Goa.
Assembly Election 2022 Dates, Schedule Live Updates: Arrangement of webcasting should be done at critical booths, says CEC Chandra.
Assembly Election 2022 Dates, Schedule Live Updates: Political parties to explain why they selected candidate with criminal background, says CEC
Assembly Election 2022 Dates, Schedule Live Updates: Criminal background of candidates should be published mandatorily, says CEC.
Assembly Election 2022 Dates, Schedule Live Updates: Person with disabilities to be given priority, says CEC
Assembly Election 2022 Dates, Schedule Live Updates: Number of voters per booth reduced to 1250 to earlier 1500, says CEC Chandra. Total number of poll booths goes over by 16 per cent.
Assembly Election 2022 Dates, Schedule Live Updates: 18.34 crore electors eligible to vote, says CEC
Assembly Election 2022 Dates, Schedule Live Updates: CEC details new protocols amid Covid pandemic. Commission visited poll-bound states and discussed with political parties to take stock of the poll preparedness. “We also met health secretary, union home secretary,” said CEC Chandra.
Assembly Election 2022 Dates, Schedule Live Updates: Conducting election challenging amid COVID, says CEC Chandra
Assembly Election 2022 Dates, Schedule Live Updates: Total 690 assembly constituencies to go to polls, says CEC Chandra
Assembly Election 2022 Dates, Schedule Live Updates: EC's press meet begins
Assembly Election 2022 Dates, Schedule Live Updates: EC press briefing to start shortly. CEC Sushil Chandra to announce poll dates for five states – Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Manipur, Punjab, Uttarakhand.
Assembly Election 2022 Dates, Schedule Live Updates: The Congress is ready to accept the support of any party that is keen to defeat the BJP in the upcoming Goa Assembly elections, senior leader P Chidambaram said on Saturday. His statement has come shortly after Trinamool Congress Party's Goa desk in-charge Mahua Moitra suggested that the Mamata Banerjee-led party was open to a pre-poll alliance with the Goa Forward Party (GFP) and Congress.
Assembly Election 2022 Dates, Schedule Live Updates: CEC Sushil Chandra along with ECs Rajiv Kumar & Anup Chandra Pandey, to address a Press Conference today @ 3:30 pm to announce Schedule for General Elections to Legislative Assemblies of Goa, Punjab, Manipur, Uttarakhand & UP.
Assembly Election 2022 Dates, Schedule Live Updates: Goa assembly polls for the 40 seats is likely to be held in single phase.
Assembly Election 2022 Dates, Schedule Live Updates: The 60 assembly seats of Manipur may go to polls in two phases, just like the 2017 polls. However, given the COVID threat, the number of polling booths are likely to go up this time.
Assembly Election 2022 Dates, Schedule Live Updates: Uttar Pradesh is likely to go to polls in eight to ten phases given a surge in COVID-19 cases as well as lesser number of voters per booth this year.
Assembly Election 2022 Dates, Schedule Live Updates: Over the last few months, there have been call to ban big rallies. The Congress party recently cancelled all its marathon events under Ladki Hoon, Lad Sakti Hoon campaign in Uttar Pradesh. It also wrote to the EC urging the poll body to stop big rallies by PM Modi, CM Yogi Adityanath.
Assembly Election 2022 Dates, Schedule Live Updates: Nishad Party to contest 24 seats in Uttar Pradesh
Nishad Party will fight on 24 seats and we will soon release a list of candidates for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, says Nishad Party Chief Sanjay Nishad in Lucknow
Assembly Election 2022 Dates, Schedule Live Updates: Allahabad HC dismissed plea against party symbol of BJP, Congress
The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Thursday dismissed a plea seeking quashing of the recognition and symbols allotted to the BJP and the Congress. The petitioner had alleged that the Election Commission does not have any power to grant recognition and symbol to a political party.
Assembly Election 2022 Dates, Schedule Live Updates: During their review meeting with the Election Commission, all political parties told EC that it should hold polls but with a stricter COVID-19 guidelines.
Assembly Election 2022 Dates, Schedule Live Updates: Two days ago, the Election Commission has hiked the poll expenditure limit for the candidates. Now an MLA candidate can spend up to Rs 40 lakh in bigger states and Rs 28 lakh in smaller states.
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Assembly Election 2022 Dates, Schedule Live Updates: With the poll dates announcement, Model Code of Conduct will come into effect from today. The elections are likely to be held in multiple phases given the COVID-19 threat.
Assembly Election 2022 Dates, Schedule Live Updates: The campaigning by all political parties in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Goa, Manipur and Uttarakhand has been in full swing.
Assembly Election 2022 Dates, Schedule Live Updates: The Election Commission's press meet comes after it consulted the relevant stakeholders about holding elections at a time when the COVID-19 cases are on a surge.
State Assembly Election 2022 Dates, Schedule Live: Election Commission Press Conference Live Updates, Goa, Punjab, Uttarakhand (UK), Manipur, UP Assembly Election Dates Live Announcement
