The Gandhinagar civic physique elections have been scheduled to be held on April 18. (Representational)
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat State Election Fee (SEC) on Saturday determined to postpone the elections to the Gandhinagar Municipal Company, scheduled to be held on April 18, as a result of rise in COVID-19 circumstances, an official assertion mentioned.
The elections are postponed for an indefinite interval following a request made by the primary political events together with the BJP, the Congress and the AAP, and lots of social teams, it mentioned.
“Taking in view the grave state of affairs brought on by the pandemic, to keep up public well being and to make sure that voting is finished in a free and honest surroundings, the State Election Fee (SEC) has determined to postpone this election until additional orders,” the SEC mentioned.
As per the sooner programme, the elections have been scheduled to be held on April 18 and the counting of votes was to be taken up on April 20.
Candidates had additionally filed their nomination papers. “We had acquired representations from all of the political events to postpone the elections,” it mentioned, including that different teams like NGOs and citizen organisations had additionally opposed holding elections presently.
“We had held an in depth overview assembly through which we realised that a lot of individuals have been contaminated by the virus on this city space and many individuals reside in containment zones. All these individuals and lots of others won’t be able to vote freely as a result of concern of the pandemic,” it mentioned.
The SEC additional mentioned it had reviewed the authorized elements of the choice and gone by means of many judgements of courts in such issues.
Chief Minister Vijay Rupani had on Friday urged the SEC to postpone the Gandhinagar civic polls.
In a letter to the SEC, Mr Rupani had mentioned that it is pure that political leaders and their supporters would collect in massive numbers for ballot campaigning.
“Furthermore, a lot of authorities staff would even be engaged within the election-related work. In such a state of affairs, it is vitally a lot attainable that COVID-19 an infection would unfold additional. Thus, I urge the SEC to think about these elements and postpone the election to GMC in a bigger public curiosity,” the Chief Minister had acknowledged.
Gujarat’s total caseload stood at 3,37,015 and the dying depend at 4,697 as on April 9, as per the state well being division.
