Election Fee has requested events to ship their strategies newest by July 31, 2020 (File)
New Delhi:
The Election Fee (EC) on Friday wrote to all nationwide and regional political events in search of their “views and strategies” on conduct of election marketing campaign throughout upcoming polls within the nation because the COVID-19 pandemic continues to be lively.
In its one-page letter, the ballot physique sought their replies by July 31 and stated that bypolls in some states and the Bihar meeting elections are due this 12 months.
The EC, whereas referring to the “present scenario of COVID-19 within the nation”, stated a number of pointers have been issued by the Centre and state governments underneath the Catastrophe Administration Act, 2005 and different another legal guidelines to make sure security and include the unfold of coronavirus within the nation.
“A number of the precautionary measures prescribed embrace obligatory sporting of face masks in public locations, social distance, sustaining a prescribed minimal social distance in public locations together with restrictions on massive public gatherings/congregations, thermal scanning on the place of gathering, sanitisation and so on,” the EC stated.
Preserving these points in thoughts, the EC requested the events to ship their “views and strategies newest by July 31, 2020 in order that vital pointers could also be firmed up for the election marketing campaign by candidates or political events for the conduct of election throughout pandemic interval.”
A number of opposition events of Bihar on Friday urged the EC to guarantee voters that the upcoming meeting polls don’t develop into a “tremendous spreader occasion” owing to the COVID-19 an infection and urged the ballot physique to limit the variety of voters per polling station to 250 to make sure bodily distancing.
The opposition events held a digital assembly with the Fee brass this night and submitted a memorandum to the ballot panel earlier within the day drawing its consideration to the coronavirus scenario within the state.
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