Bihar Assembly Election Dates Announced Today
Bihar assembly election dates announced today, Election Commission Addressed a press conference at 12:30. Bihar assembly election dates announced today by the ECI. The Election Commission addressed a press conference at 12.30 pm today.
The Election Commission announced the dates during this press conference. The Election Commission held a press conference at Vigyan Bhawan in Delhi at 12:30 pm. During this time, the Election Commission will also announce 65 by-elections along with Bihar elections.
According to sources, the first phase of voting will take place in Bihar in the last week of October. Actually, before this, the Election Commission has made it clear that Bihar Assembly elections and all the by-elections will be done by November 29.
The people of Bihar along with all the political parties are waiting for it eagerly. As election time draws near, there is only one question in the minds of the people, when will the Election Commission announce the dates of elections.
Let us know that there are about seven crore 29 lakh voters in Bihar and thus conducting elections in Bihar before the Election Commission is not less than a challenge.
The Election Commission usually visits the state to discuss with the police, civil administration officials and political parties before announcing the election schedule for the contested state.
The commission consists of a Chief Election Commissioner and two Election Commissioners. In such a situation, it will be decided today what will be the date of elections in Bihar.
Covid protocol will have to be followed in elections
This is the first election in the country after the Corona crisis, so the Election Commission has also issued guidelines according to the Kovid protocol. The number of polling stations has also been increased more than one and a half times. The number of polling personnel has also been increased, while the number of voters at each polling station has been reduced.
Voters have been asked to use masks and sanitizers at all polling stations, but precautionary arrangements are being made at each polling station for masking, handfree sanitizing and body temperature measurement. Strict instructions have also been given to completely sanitize and disinfect the booth before the voting begins.
By-elections will be held in 64 assembly seats across the country with Bihar election
Let us know that the Election Commission made it clear earlier that the Assembly elections in Bihar will be completed before November 29. Along with the elections to the Bihar Assembly, there will be by-elections in 65 seats. Actually, one Lok Sabha and 64 assembly seats in the country are vacant. An announcement by the Election Commission can be done today on these by-elections.
The Election Commission decided that by-elections to the vacant seats should also be held along with the assembly elections. According to the commission, the new legislation in Bihar is to be constituted before November 29, so accordingly assembly elections are to be completed. In such a situation, the by-elections on vacant seats will also be held along with the Bihar Legislative Assembly.
Voting can be done in three stages
Voting in Bihar can take place in three stages, as some areas are flood affected. Therefore, work is underway to plan to have the last vote in those areas. It is planned to complete the assembly election process before November 15.
The voting and counting is expected to take place during the 20 days between Dussehra and Diwali, so that all the work is done before Diwali and the employees and officials involved in the electoral process can celebrate Diwali.
How many seats in the assembly, how many now?
Bihar Assembly has a total of 243 assembly seats. At present, the alliance of BJP and JDU is in power. The RJD is the largest party in Bihar with 73 seats. But Nitish Kumar’s JDU broke the alliance with the RJD in 2017 and formed a government with the BJP.
Once again, the electoral battle in Bihar is to be fought between the NDA and the Grand Alliance. It has been announced by BJP that NDA will contest elections under the leadership of Nitish Kumar.
NDA (Total Seats – 130)
• JDU – 69
• BJP – 54
• LJP – 2
• We – 1
• Independents – 4
Grand Alliance (total seats 101)
• RJD – 73
• Congress – 23
• CPI (ML) – 3
• Independents – 1
other
- AIMIM – 1
- Vacant seats – 12
