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Pradeep Sharma
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, April 28
The stage is set for a battle of the ballot in Haryana with the State Election Commissioner(SEC) today releasing the schedule for the single-phase elections to 43 municipalities on May 22.
About 15,20,456 voters would exercise their franchisee in the election to 385 wards of 15 municipal councils and 436 wards of 28 municipal committees in which the prestige of the ruling BJP and the opposition INLD and the Congress is at stake.
“The model code of conduct has now come into force in the areas of the municipalities where the poll is to be conducted ,” SEC Rajiv Sharma said here today.
The elections are being held under the new criteria under which a person against whom charges have been framed in a criminal case, punishable with imprisonment for not less than 10 years, will not be eligible. Besides, defaulters of cooperative loans and power bills, persons not having the requisite educational qualifications (matriculation for general candidates, eighth pass for women candidate or SC candidate and fifth pass for SC woman candidate) and persons not having a functional toilet at their places of residence will not be eligible to contest the elections.
Sharma said 247 of the 1448 polling stations are sensitive and 139 hyper- sensitive. About 6,300 polling personnel and 141 duty magistrates or supervisors will be deputed on election duty. “The election to these municipalities will be conducted through 2076 EVMs and the results would be available on May 22 itself,” Sharma added.
The elections will be held for the municipal councils of Charkhi Dadri, Hansi, Kaithal, Narnaul, Tohana, Fatehabad, Sohna, Bahadurgarh, Narwana, Jind, Thanesar, Hodal, Palwal, Mandi Dabwali, Gohana. Similarly, the municipal committees going to the polls are Naraingarh, Cheeka, Rajound, Barwala, Mahendergarh, Nangal Chaudhary, Samalkha, Bhuna, Ratia, Jhajjar, Safidon, Uchana, Tarori, Nissing, Gharaunda, Assandh, Ladwa, Pehowa, Shahabad, Ferozepur Zhirka, Nuh, Punhana, Bawal, Meham, Kalanwali, Ellenabad, Rania and Gannaur.
Election schedule
April 29: Election notification
May 5 to 11 Filing of nominations
May 12 Scrutiny of nomination papers
May 13 Last date of withdrawal
May 13 (after 3 p.m.) Allotment of symbols
May 22 Polling and counting
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