While saying the delhi election schedule stay, the CEC emphasised that 2025 delhi election date might be on a Wednesday, prefer it occurred for Maharashtra polls.
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Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar introduced delhi meeting ballot schedule on Tuesday. While saying the delhi election schedule stay, the CEC emphasised that 2025 delhi election date might be on a Wednesday, prefer it occurred for Maharashtra polls.
“We have deliberately kept voting on a Wednesday. We think all Delhi voters should cast their votes. Like Maharashtra, we have scheduled voting on a Wednesday. Entire election process after counting will be complete by February 10,” CEC Rajiv Kumar mentioned.
He additional mentioned, “You will notice that the date of the poll is Wednesday. This is deliberate and we have tried that it is mid-week so that the issue of urban apathy is handled,” the CEC had mentioned whereas saying the ballot schedule for the state.” Voting in Maharashtra happened in a single-phase final yr on November 20, Wednesday.
The EC has seen that voters in rural and distant areas take part extra compared to voters in cities, city and posh areas. This phenomenon is known as ‘urban apathy’. In such instances, city voters hesitate to return out and vote on the day of voting.
In the final Delhi meeting election in 2020, the variety of registered voters was 14,797,990, whereas voter turnout was very much less, at 9,295,793. Whereas this yr, based on the ultimate voter checklist revealed on Monday, January 6, the overall variety of voters are 1,55,24,858, making this yr’s registered voters greater than the final polls, a internet improve of 1.09 per cent. However, in 2020, voters turnout was recorded at 62.82%, a decline of 4.65% from the earlier meeting election in Delhi in 2015.
The Election Commission of India introduced that voting will happen for all 70 meeting constituencies within the nationwide capital on February 5, whereas counting of votes will happen on February 8. The EC additionally said that January 17 is the final date for submitting nominations and these nominations might be scrutinised on January 18. According to the EC, the final date for withdrawal of candidature is January 20.
CEC Rajiv Kumar additionally mentioned, “India is gold standard of elections. This is our common heritage… there is no scope of any irregularity in the commission, the procedures are so details. We are ready to punish if there are any mistake individually, we are ready to take punishment too.”
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