NEW DELHI: Election Commission will announce meeting polls in Maharashtra solely after the J&Okay and Haryana election outcomes on October 4, and is prone to tie them up with the Jharkhand polls.
Sources informed TOI that elections in Maharashtra and Jharkhand could also be held in Nov and can be accomplished effectively earlier than the time period of present Maharashtra meeting expires on November 26.
Chief election commissioner Rajiv Kumar, whereas saying the ballot schedule for J&Okay and Haryana on Friday, mentioned meeting elections in Maharashtra and Haryana – which have been held collectively over the previous couple of cycles – have been delinked this time as the prevailing Haryana meeting’s time period was ending a lot earlier on Nov 3, 2024.Since J&Okay was a brand new addition to the record of meeting polls due on this a part of the yr, the choices obtainable to the EC have been to both sync Haryana polls with J&Okay’s or wait till the conclusion of J&Okay polls to announce elections in Haryana.
Nonetheless, as J&Okay polls needed to be accomplished throughout the September 30 timeframe set by the Supreme Courtroom and the earliest the ballot course of might begin was August 20 (since Amarnath Yatra can be over a day earlier than and the ultimate revised rolls for the UT printed by then), the EC didn’t have a good window to carry the Haryana polls after the J&Okay polls. Additionally, the ballot panel didn’t deem it correct to announce the Haryana polls individually whereas the ballot course of in J&Okay was nonetheless on.
“The time between the completion of J&Okay ballot course of on October 6 and November 3, by when a brand new Haryana meeting ought to be in place, was not sufficient to accommodate the complete ballot course of, together with the nomination process, marketing campaign and polling. Moreover in 2019, the Maharashtra meeting’s time period was solely until November 9, not like November 26 now, and far nearer to the expiry date of the Haryana meeting on Nov 2, 2019, which is why the 2 states had gone to polls collectively,” mentioned an EC official.
With the Jharkhand meeting’s time period ending on January 5, 2025, EC sources indicated it made sense when it comes to logistics and expenditure to convey the Jharkhand polls ahead and align them with the train in Maharashtra. “Because the Delhi meeting polls are due solely in Feb subsequent yr, EC seems extra inclined to convey Jharkhand polls ahead,” the official mentioned.
Sources informed TOI that elections in Maharashtra and Jharkhand could also be held in Nov and can be accomplished effectively earlier than the time period of present Maharashtra meeting expires on November 26.
Chief election commissioner Rajiv Kumar, whereas saying the ballot schedule for J&Okay and Haryana on Friday, mentioned meeting elections in Maharashtra and Haryana – which have been held collectively over the previous couple of cycles – have been delinked this time as the prevailing Haryana meeting’s time period was ending a lot earlier on Nov 3, 2024.Since J&Okay was a brand new addition to the record of meeting polls due on this a part of the yr, the choices obtainable to the EC have been to both sync Haryana polls with J&Okay’s or wait till the conclusion of J&Okay polls to announce elections in Haryana.
Nonetheless, as J&Okay polls needed to be accomplished throughout the September 30 timeframe set by the Supreme Courtroom and the earliest the ballot course of might begin was August 20 (since Amarnath Yatra can be over a day earlier than and the ultimate revised rolls for the UT printed by then), the EC didn’t have a good window to carry the Haryana polls after the J&Okay polls. Additionally, the ballot panel didn’t deem it correct to announce the Haryana polls individually whereas the ballot course of in J&Okay was nonetheless on.
“The time between the completion of J&Okay ballot course of on October 6 and November 3, by when a brand new Haryana meeting ought to be in place, was not sufficient to accommodate the complete ballot course of, together with the nomination process, marketing campaign and polling. Moreover in 2019, the Maharashtra meeting’s time period was solely until November 9, not like November 26 now, and far nearer to the expiry date of the Haryana meeting on Nov 2, 2019, which is why the 2 states had gone to polls collectively,” mentioned an EC official.
With the Jharkhand meeting’s time period ending on January 5, 2025, EC sources indicated it made sense when it comes to logistics and expenditure to convey the Jharkhand polls ahead and align them with the train in Maharashtra. “Because the Delhi meeting polls are due solely in Feb subsequent yr, EC seems extra inclined to convey Jharkhand polls ahead,” the official mentioned.
