New Delhi: A decision on whether to postpone the next year’s Uttar Pradesh assembly elections will be taken after next week. This information has been given by the Election Commission. A day after the Allahabad High Court urged the Election Commission to postpone the upcoming assembly polls and stop election rallies and gatherings, Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra said a final decision in this regard would be taken next week.
Chief Election Commissioner to visit Uttar Pradesh next week
The assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa, and Manipur are due early next year. But there is increasing demand to postpone these elections due to fears of the rapid spread of the more infectious variant of the corona, Omicron.
News agency ANI quoted Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra as saying, “Next week, we will go to Uttar Pradesh and review the situation there.” Then take an appropriate decision. Election Commission has to decide: Earlier in the day, while talking to reporters, Union Minister Anurag Thakur had said that if the Election Commission implements the Model Code of Conduct, then it should decide on the conduct of state elections. Thakur told reporters, when the Election Commission of India imposes the model code of conduct, they have to decide when the elections will be held.
On Thursday, the Allahabad High Court ordered the Election Commission and P.M. Modi to consider postponing the 2022 assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh by a month or two. The court had made this request in view of the increasing cases of Covid-19 due to the new Omicron variant.
