COVID-19: Gandhinagar municipal corporation polls postponed
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Last Updated: Apr 10, 2021, 09:25 PM IST
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The elections are postponed for an indefinite period following a request made by the main political parties including the BJP, the Congress and the AAP, and many social groups, it said. Taking in view the grave situation caused by the pandemic, to maintain public health and to ensure that voting is done in a free and fair environment, the state EC has decided to postpone this election till further orders, the SEC said.
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As per the earlier programme, the elections were scheduled to be held on April 18 and the counting of votes was to be taken up on April 20.
Civic body poll in Gandhinagar, Gujarat postponed over COVID-19
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The Gandhinagar civic body elections were to be held on 18 April. (Representative)
Ahmedabad:
An official statement said that the Gujarat State Election Commission (SEC) on Saturday decided to postpone the Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation elections to be held on 18 April, due to the increase in COVID-19 cases.
Elections are postponed indefinitely following a request made by several major political parties and several social groups, including BJP, Congress and AAP.
“In view of the critical situation caused by the epidemic, the State Election Commission (SEC) has decided to postpone this election until further orders, in order to maintain public health and ensure that the voting takes place in a free and fair environment,” “SEC said.
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Gujarat: Amid spike in Covid cases, Cong, AAP urge SEC to postpone GMC polls
Amid the spiralling Covid-19 cases, the Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) have appealed to the State Election Commission (SEC) to postpone the Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation (GMC) elections, slated for April 18. The counting will take place on April 20.
The Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) chief Amit Chavda had written to the State Election Commissioner Sanjay Prasad, urging him to postpone the Gandhinagar Corporation polls. When the elections to the local bodies of six corporations were announced, we had asked the SEC to simultaneously hold the Gandhinagar corporation elections along with the rest, but our request went unheeded. Even prior to the announcement of the GMC polls by the SEC, we had requested to withhold the same due to the surge in Covid cases across the state, but that too was disregarded, said Chavda in his letter to the SEC.
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April 10, 2021 00:22 IST
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