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West Bengal Assembly elections: Polling stations in Darjeeling increased in view of COVID-19

West Bengal Assembly elections: Polling stations in Darjeeling increased in view of COVID-19
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Updated: Feb 27, 2021 18:29 IST
By Tarak Sarkar
Siliguri (West Bengal) [India], February 27 (ANI): District Election Officer of Darjeeling and District Magistrate Shashank Sethi has increased the polling stations in five Assembly constituencies in the district for the upcoming polls in the view of ongoing pandemic.
In the last polls, there were 1,413 polling stations and now it has been increased to 1,719. There are 12,22,190 voters in the district.
Darjeeling will go for the polling in the fifth phase on April 17. Two companies of the central armed police forces will be arriving in the district, officials said.

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Everyone on poll duty to get COVID-19 vaccine before assembly elections: Election Commission

Everyone on poll duty to get COVID-19 vaccine before assembly elections: Election Commission
Voting will take place for 126 seats in Assam, 234 in Tamil Nadu, 294 in West Bengal, 140 in Kerala and 30 in Puducherry.
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By PTI
NEW DELHI: Everyone on election duty for the upcoming polls for five assemblies will be vaccinated against COVID-19 before polling day, the Election Commission said on Friday.
Voting will take place for 126 seats in Assam, 234 in Tamil Nadu, 294 in West Bengal, 140 in Kerala and 30 in Puducherry. Nearly 18.68 crore electors will be eligible to vote at 2.7 lakh polling stations for 824 seats in five assembly elections, Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora said at a press conference here.

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West Bengal government reduces price of petrol by ₹1.

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Most of Assam's 19 lakh NRC rejects can cast votes in 2021 polls

Most of Assam’s 19 lakh NRC rejects can cast votes in 2021 polls
Published : Dec 24, 2020, 5:00 am IST
Updated : Dec 24, 2020, 5:00 am IST
Unless foreigners tribunal declares a person as foreigner, his or her name will be there in the voter list even after exclusion from the NRC
According to NRC officials, 1,032 ineligible persons identified by it in last year's updated NRC are either ‘declared foreigners’, marked as ‘D voters’ or having cases pending at FTs (PTI)
Guwahati: In a significant move the election authorities in Assam has made it clear that 19 lakhs people, whose names were excluded from National Register of Citizens (NRC) but not facing any trial in the foreigners tribunal prior to publication of the final citizenship register on August 31, 2019 would be able to exercise their franchise in the forthcoming assembly polls in 2021.

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