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Bhubaneswar: Pipili Bypoll Date Introduced By The ECI. Pipili Bypoll to be held on April 17.

The Fee has determined to carry bye-elections to fill vacancies in   Two (2) Parliamentary Constituencies of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka and Fourteen (14) vacancies in Meeting Constituencies of assorted States as per particulars given under:

After taking into account varied components like native festivals, electoral rolls, climate situations, motion of forces, pandemic and so forth., the Fee has determined to carry bye-elections to fill these vacancies as per the programme talked about as below:

1. ELECTORAL ROLL

The Electoral Rolls for the aforesaid Parliamentary and Meeting Constituencies w.r.t 01.01.2021 because the qualifying date has been lastly revealed.

2. ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES (EVMs) and VVPATs

The Fee has determined to make use of EVMs and VVPATs in these bye-election in all polling stations. Sufficient numbers of EVMs and VVPATs have been made out there and all steps have been taken to make sure that the polls are performed easily with the assistance of those machines.

3. IDENTIFICATION OF VOTERS

In continuance to the present apply, the voter’s identification shall be necessary within the aforementioned election on the time of ballot. Electoral Picture Id Playing cards (EPIC) shall be the principle doc of identification of a voter. Nevertheless, so as to be certain that no voter is disadvantaged of his/her franchise, if his/her identify figures within the electoral rolls, following alternate id paperwork are additionally prescribed:

1. Aadhar Card,
2. MNREGA Job Card,
3. Passbooks with {photograph} issued by Financial institution/Put up Workplace,
4. Well being Insurance coverage Good Card issued below the scheme of Ministry of Labour,
5. Driving License,
6. PAN Card,
7. Good Card issued by RGI below NPR,
8. Indian Passport,
9. Pension doc with {photograph},
10. Service Id Playing cards with {photograph} issued to staff by Central/State Govt./PSUs/Public Restricted Firms, and
11. Official id playing cards issued to MPs/MLAs/MLCs.

4. MODEL CODE OF CONDUCT

Mannequin code of conduct shall come into power with instant impact within the district(s) through which the entire or any a part of the Parliamentary/Meeting constituency going for election is included, topic to partial modification as issued vide Fee’ s instruction No. 437/6/1NST/2016-CCS, dated 29^th June, 2017 (out there on the fee’s web sitehttps://eci.gov.in/)(copy enclosed). The Mannequin code of conduct shall be relevant to all candidates, political events and the State authorities involved. The Mannequin Code of Conduct shall even be relevant to the Union Authorities additionally.

5. VOTER INFORMATION SLIPS (VIS)

To facilitate the voter to know the serial variety of electoral roll of his/her polling station, date of ballot, time and so forth., the Fee vide letter dated 26.02.2021, has determined to concern ‘Voter Data Slip’ to the voters rather than Picture Voter Slip. Voter Data Slip will embrace data like Polling Station, Date, Time and so forth. however not the {photograph} of the voter. Voter Data Slip can be distributed a minimum of 5 days earlier than the date of ballot to all enrolled electors, by the District Election Officer. Nevertheless, Voter Data Slip won’t be allowed as proof of id of voters. It could be recalled that the Fee had discontinued Picture Voter Slips as an id proof with impact from 28^th February, 2019.

6. BROAD GUIDELINES TO BE FOLLOWED DURING THE CONDUCT OF BYE-ELECTIONS DURING COVID-19

In view of unfold of COVID-19, the Fee on 21^st August, 2020, issued broad tips, which is to be adopted strictly through the conduct of elections, which is out there on Fee’s web site.

All directions issued throughout Normal Election to Legislative Assemblies of Bihar, 2020 and Normal Elections to Legislative Assemblies of 5 States/UT shall even be mutatis mutandis relevant to the aforementioned bye-elections.

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