Haryana meeting election voting day has been revised
New Delhi:
The Haryana meeting election might be held on October 5 as an alternative of 1 to honour the voting rights and respect the traditions of the Bishnoi neighborhood, whose pageant falls throughout this era, the Election Fee (EC) introduced right now.
Accordingly, the counting day for each Haryana and the Jammu and Kashmir elections has been revised to October 8 from 4.
The EC acknowledged that the Bishnoi neighborhood has upheld a centuries-old follow to take part within the Asoj Amavasya pageant in remembrance of Guru Jambeshwar.
The EC had obtained representations from the All India Bishnoi Mahasabha based mostly in Rajasthan’s Bikaner for rescheduling voting day in Haryana. The Bishnoi group stated that for generations quite a few households from Punjab, Rajasthan and Haryana have noticed a practice of visiting their village Mukam in Rajasthan throughout “Amavas” within the month of “Asoj”, for his or her annual pageant in Bikaner within the reminiscence of their Guru Jambheshwar.
This yr, the pageant falls on October 2 and hundreds of Bishnoi households residing in Sirsa, Fatehabad and Hisar can be travelling to Rajasthan on voting day, denying them their voting rights, the EC stated.
The EC has usually adjusted election dates to respect the feelings of varied communities.
As an example, in the course of the Punjab meeting election in 2022, the EC postponed the election by every week to accommodate devotees travelling to Varanasi for Guru Ravidas Jayanti.
Equally, in Manipur in the course of the 2022 meeting elections, the EC modified the polling dates to respect the Christian neighborhood’s Sunday prayers.
Within the 2023 Rajasthan meeting election, the EC rescheduled polling initially scheduled on Devuthani Ekadashi, a day vital for mass weddings in Rajasthan.
Within the Uttar Pradesh meeting election 2012, the ballot date was modified on account of Barawafat. Coincidentally, the revised polling day would additionally resolve any issues of a six-day vacation by taking a one-day go away on September 30, the EC stated.
