Assembly elections in UP, Punjab, U'khand, Goa, Manipur from Feb 10
The polling will begin in phases starting on February 10 and the counting of
votes will be on March 10. Uttar Pradesh will go to the polls in seven phases on
February 10, February 14, February 20, February 23, February 27, March 3 and
March 7. Punjab, Goa and Uttarakhand will vote on February 14. Manipur votes
in two phases on February 27 and March 3.
NEW DELHI, Jan 8: The Election Commission of India on Saturday announced the
schedule for the Assembly elections in the five States of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab,
Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur, beginning February 10. The elections are being
held in the midst of a third wave of the covid pandemic sweeping the country.
There were 1.41 lakh infection cases in the last 24 hours in the country, a
steep climb from 1,17,100 on Thursday.
The five States will vote in phases starting February 10. Counting of votes
is scheduled for March 10, Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra said.
Uttar Pradesh will go to the polls on February 10, February 14, February 20,
February 23, February 27, March 3 and March 7, in seven phases. Punjab, Goa,
and Uttarakhand will vote on February 14. Manipur will vote in two phases on
February 27 March 3.
The candidates will have to conduct campaigns through virtual mode.
There are a total of 690 Assembly constituencies going to the polls: UP (403
seats), Punjab (117), Uttarakhand (70), Manipur (60) and Goa (40). There are
18.34 crore voters in all the five States going to the polls, of whom 8.55 crore
are women.
UP has 1,74,351 polling booths. It has been raised from 1,64,472 polling booths
earlier because of covid. So also the number of voters allowed to vote in a
single polling both has been reduced to 1,200 from 1,500 due to covid, in all
States. Polling time has been increased by an hour in all the States in order
to keep social distancing. The commission asked the States to speed up the vaccination
programme.
The EVMs will have VVPATs. All polling booths will be sanitised. The polling
staff will have taken the booster dose of covid vaccine, apart from full vaccination.
On Friday, the Commission and the Health Ministry had extensive discussions
on the covid situation in the country and how to conduct the campaigns and the
polling safely and by following the covid protocol.
The Commission decided not to allow any rallies, road shows, padayatras till
January 15. The political parties will provide masks and sanitisers to party
workers. Only 5 people will be allowed In door to door campaigns. There will
not be any victory procession after the counting.
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The polling will begin in phases starting on February 10 and the counting of
votes will be on March 10. Uttar Pradesh will go to the polls in seven phases on
February 10, February 14, February 20, February 23, February 27, March 3 and
March 7. Punjab, Goa and Uttarakhand will vote on February 14. Manipur votes
in two phases on February 27 and March 3.
Virgin Galactic's Richard Branson, who opened a new chapter in
space age last month by launching the first manned private flight
to the edge of space, flying in his own spaceplane, has
invited everyone to join his expedition of space travel and
experience the thrill of totally losing your weight (BMI = 0) and enjoy
the mind-blowing sight of the earth's curvatures from the orbit far above: 
Can we ask the vaccinator, "Do you pull back the plunger and
then push the vaccine? Do you Aspirate?" When the vaccination
for covid started there were reports of worrisome incidents of
adverse events post immunisation, the serious complaints being
non-specific blood clots. These related to viral vector vaccines of
human and non-human source: AstraZeneca and Janssen. How
did it happen. There are various views. But here is a suggestion
how simply it can be prevented. 
While the rationalists debunk the episode as a ploy to make up for
the losses in offerings during the corona lockdown, the believers
stick to their claim, they have seen it after all! The claim of
Shankaralinga temple resembles the miracle of Ganesha drinking
milk in Delhi way back in 1995. Although they belong to two
different branches of science. 
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the job for Gumball Poodle. The demand for 'Future is Female' is
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