Reported By: | Edited By: DNA Web Crew |Source: PTI |Updated: Jan 30, 2022, 08: 32 PM IST
The Election Commission will meet on Monday to assess the COVID-19 fret in the 5 poll-going states and settle on whether or no longer to continue the ban on physical rallies.
The Commission might well well moreover settle on whether or no longer unusual relaxations will be prolonged to political parties and candidates in maintaining physical campaigning events.
Citing the upward thrust in COVID-19 cases, the poll panel had imposed a ban on physical rallies and roadshows when it launched the poll agenda for Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa, Punjab and Manipur on January 8.
During its final assembly on January 22, it had prolonged the ban on physical rallies and roadshows till January 31 in the 5 states but had allowed public meetings with a maximum of 500 other folks in the constituencies going to polls in the principle two phases and relaxed door-to-door campaign guidelines.
The Commission has been reviewing the fret continually and has been granting relaxations to be sure the virus would not spread and parties win but one more to retain physical campaigning in the restricted layout.
