(Siasat News)Election Commission will issue a notification today to fill up (17) lok sabha and 119 Assembly seats. The last date of calling nomination will be 9th April and the last date of withdrawal of nominations will be 12th April. The first phase of poling in Telangana will be held on 30-04-2014. This was notified by Chief Electoral Officer, Mr. Bhanwar Lal, yesterday at Secretariat while talking to newsmen. In Telangana area there are (11) Assembly constituencies which are affected by extremist activists wherein polling will take place from 7 am to 4 pm and in other areas the polling time will be from 7 am to 6 pm. The Chief Electoral Officer informed that nominations will be except on public holidays falling on 5th April (Babu Jagjivan Ram’s birthday) and 8th April (Sriram Navami).
Candidates for lok sabha will have to pay Rs. 25,000 as deposit whereas the amount of deposit for Assembly constituency is Rs.10,000. Candidates belonging to SCs and STs will have to pay half of the amount.
Election notification for Seema Andhra for (25) lok Sabha seats and 175 Assembly seats will be issued on 12th April and 19th April will be the last date of filing of nominations. The candidates can withdraw their names before 25th April. The second phase of polling in Seema Andhra region will take place on 7th May. Counting of votes will take place on 16th May. He also informed that so far 6.41 crore voters have registered their names. It is likely that 4-5 lakh more voters might register their names.
———-Siasat News