According to sources assembly elections will be held on february 8 in delhi which will witness a triangular contest among the ruling AAP, the bjp and the Congress. Meanwhile the election commission announced on monday the results will be declared on february 11. Furthermore Chief election Commissioner sunil Arora said the notification for the polls will be issued on january 14 while the last date of withdrawal of candidature will be january 24. Perhaps with the issuance of the notification, the nomination process will commence.
Further the announcement of poll schedule comes days after parts of the city witnessed incidents of violence and protests against the amended citizenship law and the proposed countrywide National Register of Citizens (NRC). Responding to a question on the law and order situation in the national capital, the Chief election Commissioner said, "I won't say we (the Commission) are very sanguine, but we are hopeful that they (police) will be able to control the situation (and make it) conducive for polls." He said at a press conference "And in any case in the polling process, if there is some kind of an extra-ordinary situation, always (there) are provisions for kind of deferring the polls. All these provisions are there. The Constitution empowers ECI to take a call if needed".
Moreover election Commissioner Sushil Chandra was not present at the press conference as he was not in town. Arora said the poll schedule has been decided unanimously by all the three election commissioners. Apparently for delhi elections, the Commission will deploy 33,600 ballot units, 18,200 control units and 20,600 paper trail machines and at least one ballot unit and one control unit make up for one electronic voting machine.
