12 companies, 75 municipalities to go to polls on March 10
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Poll course of stopped final 12 months will proceed from withdrawal stage, ballot code comes into impact
The State Election Commission issued a notification on Monday to ‘continue the election process’, from the ‘stage of withdrawal’, in respect of 12 municipal companies and 75 municipalities/ nagara panchayats within the State. According to the election schedule launched by the SEC, elections might be held for all city native our bodies (ULBs) on March 10.
According to a press launch by the State Election Commissioner, Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar, the election course of set in movement on March 9, 2020 for conduct of atypical elections to ULBs, had been accomplished up to the stage of scrutiny of nominations on March 14, 2020. The fee had stopped the method halfway due to menace of COVID-19 for a interval of six weeks and issued additional orders on May 6, 2020 suspending the method till additional orders. The newest notification is for resuming the method from the stage the place it was stopped.
According to the most recent election schedule, candidates can withdraw their nominations on or earlier than March 3. On the identical day, the record of contesting candidates might be revealed.
Elections to all ULBs will concurrently happen on March 10, and votes counted on March 14.
The mannequin code of conduct would come into power on Monday and stay in power till the completion of the election course of.
The municipal companies of (*10*), Greater Visakhapatnam, Eluru, Vijayawada, Machilipatnam, Guntur, Ongole, Chittoor, Tirupathi, Kadapa, Kurnool, and Anantapur would go to polls on identical day.
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Schedule
(*12*) of withdrawal of candidature – March 2
Last date for withdrawal – March 3
Publication of candidates’ record March 3
Polling – March 10
Re-poll, if any – March 13
Counting – March 14
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