NINE
PHASE LS POLLS TO START FROM APRIL 7;COUNTING ON MAY 16; SIMULTANEOUS ASSEMBLY
ELECTIONS TO BE HELD IN AP, ODISHA & SIKKIM
The elections to the 16th Lok Sabha, spread over
nine phases, will begin from 7th of next month. The counting will take place on
16th May.Chief Election Commissioner, , V S Sampath announced poll schedules
today.
The first polling day on April 7 will cover five Lok Sabha constituencies in
Assam and one in Tripura while the second on the 9th of April will cover seven
constituencies spread over Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram and
Nagaland. 92 constituencies in 14 states including Bihar, Uttar Pradesh,
Haryana, Kerela, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra and Delhi will go to polls
on the 10th of April. Five constituencies in three states including Assam, will
be covered on the fourth day on April 12.
122 Lok Sabha seats will go to polls in 13 states on April 17, the fifth day of
the poll. The states included in this phase are Karnataka, Rajashthan,
Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh , Uttar Pradesh, Odisha and Bihar. The sixth phase
will witness polling in 117 seats in 12 states including Assam, Chhattishgarh,
Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh on April
24.
The seventh day of polling on April 30 will choose
representatives in 89 constituencies spread over nine states including Andhra
Pradesh, Gujarat, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. 64 seats in seven
including Bihar, Himanchal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and West Bengal
will be covered in 8th phase on 7th May. Polling will come to an end on 12th
May with elections in 41 constituencies in Chhattishgarh, Uttar Pradesh and
West Bengal.
Notification for the first phase will be issued on 14th March and last and the
ninth phase on 17th of April.
The CEC also announced that the Assembly elections in Sikkim, Odisha and Andhra
Pradesh will be held simultaneously with Lok Sabha polls. Election for 119
seats of Andhra Pradesh Assembly will be held on 30 April and for 175 seats on
7th May. Odisha Assembly will also witness two phase poll with 70 seats going
to polls on 10th April and 77 on 17th April. Polling for all 32 Assembly seats
in Sikkim will be held on 12th of April. Mr. Sampath said that voters
enrollment has already been updated and about 81.4 crore voters have enrolled
their names in the list so far.
The Chief Election Commissioner said that Model Code of Conduct has come into
force with immediate effect. On paid news, Mr Sampth said that the election
commission has asked the Centre to make it an electoral offence
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