Highlights
Puducherry will vote in a single phase.
This election will be a keen contest between the AINRC-led NDA and Congress-led Secular Democratic alliance.
Puducherry: The polling for 30 assembly seats in the Union Territory will commence today (April 6). Puducherry will vote in a single phase and the election will be a keen contest between the AINRC-led NDA and Congress-led Secular Democratic alliance.
As many as 10,02,589 electors will exercise their right to vote in the 15 legislative Assembly of the Union Territory to decide the fate of 324 candidates in fray.
Security arrangements are being closely monitored by the Election Commission, which also announced that one all-women polling station is being set up in each Assembly constituency. The DEO, #Puducherry inspecting the Model Polling Station at the Petit Seminaire School, Moolakulam. Overall, there are 30 Model Polling Stations, 1 in each Constituency, and 28 All-Women Polling Stations for #PuducherryElections2021,
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Delimitation Comm seeks written suggestions from 5 LS MPs in J&K
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Assembly elections in J&K unlikely to be held for one-and-half year
Only one meeting conducted in one-year term of Panel
Sanjeev Pargal
JAMMU, Mar 4: With the Central Government extending term of the Delimitation Commission set up for Jammu and Kashmir for one more year, Assembly elections for first Legislative Assembly of the Union Territory are unlikely to be held for another one and a half year in view of follow up procedure after the Panel submits its report to the Union Ministry of Law and Justice.
The Ministry last night issued an order substituting words “two years’’ as against “one year’’ as term of the Delimitation Commission for Jammu and Kashmir. The Panel’s one-year term was due to expire tomorrow.