In Jammu and Kashmir, elections will be in three phases from 18 September and on 1 October in Haryana. Results will be declared on 4 October.
Published Aug 16, 2024 | 5:18 PM ⚊ Updated Aug 16, 2024 | 5:18 PM
The dates were announced during a press conference held by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar and Election Commissioners (ECs) Gyanesh Kumar and Dr Sukhbir Singh Sandhu in New Delhi.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Friday, 16 August, announced the dates of Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, and Haryana.
Apart from these states, elections are due in Maharashtra, Jharkhand and Delhi. The ECI said that the dates for the elections in theses states will be released after the completion of the polls in Jammu and Kashmir, and Haryana.
The dates were announced during a press conference held by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar and Election Commissioners (ECs) Gyanesh Kumar and Dr Sukhbir Singh Sandhu in New Delhi.
In Jammu and Kashmir, elections are being held after nearly a decade. The Assembly elections will be in three phases from 18 September, setting the stage for the people of the union territory to elect a government after the scrapping of Article 370 in 2019.
The Election Commission also announced that elections to the 90-member Haryana assembly will be held on 1 October and results for both the polls will be declared on 4 October.
The three-phase elections to the 90-member Jammu and Kashmir Assembly will be held on 18 September, 25 September and 1 October, CEC Kumar said.
Kumar said Assembly elections in Maharashtra, which were held along with Haryana in 2019, will be announced later due to security requirements for Jammu and Kashmir.
He said four elections are due this year and by early next year and since Jammu and Kashmir was not in the picture last time (2019-20) the Commission decided to group two Assembly elections together.
Kumar said the next set of elections will be announced after the completion of the polls in Jammu and Kashmir and Haryana.
While 24 seats will go to the polls in the first phase in Jammu and Kashmir, elections will be held in 26 seats and 40 seats in the second and third phases respectively.
The last Assembly elections were held in Jammu and Kashmir in November-December 2014 in five phases.
The announcement by the ECI comes months after the Supreme Court upheld the Union government’s decision to scrap Jammu and Kashmir’s special status and directed that Assembly elections be held by 30 September.
In Haryana, the gazette notification regarding the election will be issued on 5 September. Candidates can file nominations till 12 September which would be scrutinised on 13 September. Nominations can be withdrawn till 16 September.
In Jammu and Kashmir, the gazette notification regarding the phase I election will be issued on 20 August. Candidates can file nominations till 27 August which would be scrutinised on 28 August. Nominations can be withdrawn till 30 August.
The notification regarding the phase II election will be issued on 29 August. Candidates can file nominations till 5 September which would be scrutinised on 6 September. Nominations can be withdrawn till 9 September.
For phase III, the notification will be issued on 5 September. Candidates can file nominations till 12 September which would be scrutinised on 13 September. Nominations can be withdrawn till 17 September.
(With PTI inputs)
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