Polling will be held for 22 LS, 154 Assembly seats
Arrangements have been made for filing of nominations by candidates on Monday when the Election Commission will formally issue the notification for holding elections in 22 Lok Sabha and 154 Assembly constituencies in North Coastal Andhra and Telangana regions.
These constituencies will go to the polls in the first phase on April 16.
The EC on Sunday notified the names of the returning officers (RO) for all these constituencies along with the locations of their offices to receive the nominations from candidates.
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These details were displayed on the notice-boards at the constituency headquarters and at the Collectorates and put on the website of Chief Electoral Officer I. V. Subba Rao ( www.ceoandhra.nic.in). The nominations will be received from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Announcing these details at a press conference here on Sunday, Mr. Subba Rao warned candidates and political parties violating rules while filing nominations, saying “follow rules or face action.”
A videographer attached to each office of the ROs, as a rule, would videograph the candidates while filing nomination and the CD of the recording would be kept with the RO to take action later wherever necessary. Only four persons would be allowed to accompany the candidate.
Mr. Subba Rao asked the ROs not to take decisions instantly to reject nominations on flimsy grounds like non-filling of some column in the application form. He advised them to get the columns filled by the candidate.
Over three crore out of 5.67 crore voters in the State would participate in the phase I polling to be conducted at 36,115 out of the 66,364 polling stations in the State.
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