JAIPUR: The election commission (EC) on Saturday issued an order curtailing the timing for poll campaigning up to 7pm for bypolls in Vallabhnagar and Dhariawad because of Covid.
It stated that there shall not be any election campaign between 7pm and 10am in these two assembly constituencies. The commission also increased the ‘silence period’ from 48 to 72 hours, which means the poll campaign ends at 6pm on October 27.
State’s chief electoral officer Praveen Gupta said that all instructions issued by the Election Commission of India (ECI) during the West Bengal elections in view of Covid-19 pandemic will also be applicable in the upcoming bypolls. The bypolls to the two assembly constituencies will be held from 7am to 6pm on October 30 and the counting of votes will be done on November 2. In all, 5.11 lakh voters will exercise their franchise in both the assembly constituencies. While 2.53 lakh voters will be able to cast their votes in Vallabhnagar, 2.57 lakh voters will exercise their franchise in Dhariawad.
In Vallabhnagar, 1.29 lakh are male voters and 1.24 lakh are female voters. Of the total voters in Dhariawad, 1.29 lakh voters are male voters and 1.27 lakh are female voters. Apart from this, there are 90 service voters in Vallabhnagar and 8 in Dhariawad.
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