By Our Correspondent
NEW DELHI/BHUBANESWAR: Assembly Seat No-110-Pipili in Odisha’s Puri district to go for Polls on April 17 while counting on May 2. By-poll to the constituency was necessitated after demise of former BJD MLA late Pradeep Maharathy, who died on October 4 , 2020. A gazette notification in this regard will be issued on Mach 23.The last date for filing of nomination papers is March 30 while the nominations will be scrutinized on March 31. The last date for withdrawal of candidatures is April 3. Counting of votes will take place on May 2 .
The Commission has decided to hold bye-elections to fill vacancies in Two (2) Parliamentary Constituencies of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka and Fourteen (14) vacancies in Assembly Constituencies of various States.
After taking into consideration various factors like local festivals, electoral rolls, weather conditions, movement of forces, pandemic etc., the Commission has decided to hold bye-elections to fill these vacancies.
Model code of conduct shall come into force with immediate effect in the district(s) in which the whole or any part of the Parliamentary/Assembly constituency going for election is included, subject to partial modification as issued vide Commission’ s instruction No. 437/6/1NST/2016-CCS, dated 29th June, 2017 (available on the commission’s websitehttps://eci.gov.in/)(copy enclosed). The Model code of conduct shall be applicable to all candidates, political parties and the State government concerned. The Model Code of Conduct shall also be applicable to the Union Government also.
In view of spread of COVID-19, the Commission on 21st August, 2020, issued broad guidelines, which is to be followed strictly during the conduct of elections, which is available on Commission’s website. All instructions issued during General Election to Legislative Assemblies of Bihar, 2020 and General Elections to Legislative Assemblies of 5 States/UT shall also be mutatis mutandis applicable to the aforementioned bye-elections.
