Punjab Meeting Elections 2022 shall be held on February 20.
Chandigarh:
Meeting elections in Punjab shall be held on February 20, the Election Fee mentioned immediately. The date has been modified from February 14 after political events requested the Election Fee to think about Guru Ravidas Jayanti celebrations.
Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi in a letter to the Election Fee had suggested the assembly polls should be deferred by at least six days after representatives of the Scheduled Castes neighborhood, which includes 32 per cent of Punjab’s inhabitants, advised him that numerous folks from the neighborhood would go to Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh from February 10 to 16 and so could not have the ability to vote. The beginning anniversary of Guru Ravidas is on February 16.
In an announcement immediately, the Election Fee mentioned a number of political events, the Punjab authorities and different organisations have sought the polls to be deferred. “…They’ve additionally dropped at the discover that numerous devotees begin transferring for Varanasi round every week earlier than the day of celebration and maintaining the ballot day on 14 February 2022 will deprive numerous electors from voting,” the Election Fee mentioned.
“After contemplating these new info rising out of those representations, inputs from the state authorities and Chief Electoral Officer, previous priority and all info and circumstances within the matter, now fee has determined to reschedule the elections,” it mentioned.
The BJP and its allies together with the Punjab Lok Congress led by former Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh had additionally requested the Election Fee to defer the February 14 election in Punjab.
In a letter to the Chief Election Commissioner on Sunday, Punjab BJP Common Secretary Subhash Sharma mentioned, “The state has substantial inhabitants of followers of Guru Ravidas ji, together with the Scheduled Castes (SC) neighborhood which is about 32 per cent of the inhabitants of Punjab. On this pious event, hundreds of thousands of devotees would go to Banaras in Uttar Pradesh to rejoice the gurparb. So it will not be doable for them to take part within the voting course of…”
Punjab Aam Aadmi Celebration chief Bhagwant Mann tweeted his get together’ request to the Election Fee to defer the election by every week.
Counting is on March 10.
