Jaipur: The Election Commission of India (ECI) announced election schedules for five states just the other day.
Within two days, the ECI has had to alter dates for Rajasthan assembly election.
Instead of November 23 as originally announced, Rajasthan will vote on November 25, as per EC’s revised schedule on Wednesday. It will be single-phase polling, with counting and results on December 3 along with four other states – Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Mizoram.
But what caused this change in schedule?
Well, it was brought to EC’s notice that several weddings were scheduled for November 23.
“Representations have been received by the Commission from various political parties, social organisations and also issues raised in various media platforms for change of date of poll considering large scale wedding, social engagement on that day which may cause inconvenience to a large number of people, various logistics issues and may lead to reduced voter participation during the poll,” Election Commission said in a statement.
Rajasthan, which has 200 Assembly constituencies, is currently under a Congress-led government.
