On Sunday, the Election Commission of India will declare the date of the forthcoming Assembly elections of five regions. The poll body will hold a press conference at 4 PM, when it will formally announce the dates of the election and the polling plan stage by stage. West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Assam and the Union Territory of Puducherry are the states that are to hold the Assembly elections.
The legislative assemblies of these states and the union territory will continue until May and June of different dates. The Election Commission is bound to undertake the polls before the end of the respective assembly terms as per the election laws in order to facilitate smooth continuation of the democratization process. The voter lists have already been revised intensively in all the four states and the union territory as part of the preparations, and the final electoral rolls have already been published.
This announcement follows an important meeting of the Election Commission in New Delhi this week. At the Wednesday, March 11th meeting, the Commission deliberated and agreed on the proposed timetable of the polling process, as far as the number of phases in which the elections will be carried out is concerned. The deliberations were anchored on the field reports by state election machinery and central observers.
The entire Commission body including the Chief Election Commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar, and the Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi had just been back in the national capital after a thorough inspection of the poll preparedness in the five regions. This nationwide exercise of review by the Commission came to an end with the visit to West Bengal.
When they took these visits, their Election Commission had some elaborate consultations with senior government and police officials, district magistrates and political party leaders.
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