New Delhi: The Election Commission has announced the dates for the 2024 assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir and Haryana. Voting will be held in three phases in Jammu and Kashmir on 18 September, 25 September and 1 October respectively. Voting will be held in Haryana on 1 October. Counting of votes will be done on 4 October in both the states.
The Election Commission said, there will be 360 model polling booths in Jammu and Kashmir. There will be 11 thousand 833 polling booths. He said that they were waiting for the Amarnath Yatra to end and the weather to improve.
He said that the final voter list will be released on August 20. In the voting held on three seats in the Lok Sabha, 51 percent votes were cast. Form M was simplified. Rajiv Kumar said that during the visit to Jammu and Kashmir, all the parties were eager for the elections. At the same time, the long queues in the Lok Sabha elections were the strength of democracy. The people wanted to write their own destiny. The Election Commission said that this time 3 seats have been increased in the Jammu Kashmir Assembly. Last time there were 87 seats in the Jammu Kashmir Assembly. Let us tell you that the Supreme Court had ordered to conduct elections in Jammu Kashmir before 30 September.
Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar, while talking about Haryana elections, said that there are 2 crore 1 thousand voters in the land of athletes and players. 20 thousand 629 polling booths will be set up for 90 assembly seats in the state. He told that there are 73 general seats and 17 SC seats here. Its voter list will be released on 27 August. At the same time, the term of Haryana Assembly is ending on 3 November.
The term of Maharashtra Assembly is ending on 26 November. In the past, the Election Commission had conducted assembly elections in Maharashtra and Haryana simultaneously. Separate elections were held in Jharkhand.
The report cites the recent visits of the Election Commission to Jammu and Kashmir and Haryana. Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar and two Election Commissioners Gyanesh Kumar and SS Sandhu were in Jammu and Kashmir on a two-day visit on August 8-9 to meet stakeholders and assess election preparations. For this purpose, the team was in Haryana on August 12-13.
According to the information, Haryana currently has a total of 90 assembly seats. The last assembly elections were held here in 2019. At the same time, voting was held on 21 October 2019 for 288 assembly seats in Maharashtra. Talking about Jharkhand, votes were cast on 81 assembly seats last time in 2019. Most importantly, if we talk about Jammu and Kashmir, the last assembly elections were held here in 2014. At the same time, elections will be held for the first time after the removal of Article 370.
There were 87 assembly seats in Jammu and Kashmir earlier. Of these, 37 were in Jammu, 46 in Kashmir Valley and 6 in Ladakh, but after delimitation, the number of Jammu and Kashmir assembly seats has increased to 90. Of which 43 seats are in Jammu and approximately 47 seats are in Kashmir.
