The Election Fee is prone to announce the schedule for the Gujarat Meeting elections on Thursday. The ballot physique has referred to as a press convention at midday in New Delhi.
Final month, on October 14, the EC had introduced elections to the Himachal Pradesh Meeting, which is able to happen on November 12 in a single-phase adopted by counting of votes on December 8. On the time, the EC refrained from saying dates for Gujarat, with Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar saying, “We’re following previous precedent in conserving the announcement of dates for Gujarat in abeyance for now.”
Announcement of a number of state polls collectively, the CEC stated, results in longer wait-time for the declaration of outcomes for some.
That is the third time since 1998 that the announcement of Gujarat Meeting elections has been de-linked from that of Himachal Pradesh. Polls had been performed concurrently in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh in 1998, 2007 and 2012, however had been held individually in 2002-03, after the Gujarat Meeting was prematurely dissolved quickly after the Godhra riots.
The EC usually holds elections collectively in states the place incumbent governments are finishing their five-year phrases inside six months, and publicizes the ballot dates for these states concurrently.
The time period of the 182-member state Meeting ends on February 18, 2023.
If the Gujarat ballot dates are introduced immediately, the Mannequin Code of Conduct will come into impact within the state after the official notification for the election is printed.