DEO Thoubal notifies
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, October 14 2020:
The District Election Officer, Thoubal has notified to all the intending candidates of by-elections to Manipur Legislative Assembly in respect of 30-Lilong and 34-Wangjing Tentha Assembly Constituencies and all the political parties, functionaries in the district that as per the broad guidelines for conduct of general elections/by-elections during COVID-19 published by the Election Commission of India, the Commission has directed the following restriction for strict compliance.
The number of persons to accompany the candidate for submission of nomination is retricted to two and also the number of vehicles for the purpose of nomination is also restricted to two.
Option of postal ballot facility has been extended to the electors who are marked as persons with disabilities (PwD), electors above the age of 80 years, electors employed in notified essentail services and electors who are COVID-19 positive.
Door to Door Campaign: Subject to any other restriction(s) including extant COVID-19 guidelines, a group of five persons including candidates, excluding security personnel, if any, is allowed to do door to door campaigning.
Road Shows: The convoy of vehicles should be broken after every five vehicles instead of 10 vehicles (excluding the security vehicles, if any) .
The interval between two sets of convoy of vehicles should be half an hour instead of gap of 100 meters.
Election Meetings: Public gatherings/rallies may be conducted subject to adherence to extant COVID-19 guidelines.