After Madras HC reprimed to Election commission to maintain covid protocol during election campaign, now EC acme into action and On Monday Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Satyabrata Sahoo issued special noticed regarding election counting that to took place on Sunday. Let us share here that CEO said that a negative RT-PCR test certificate is mandatory for candidates and political party agents who will be entering counting centres on May 2.
Here it is to be noted that assembly elections in Tamil Nadu were held on April 6 and the counting of votes is scheduled to take place on May 2. the CEO has instructed that for those who have taken both doses of vaccines, a negative certificate will not be necessary, he also asked district authorities to plan ahead to avoid any confusion on the day of counting. Several district collectors have, in turn, informed the CEO that they will be organising special camps for candidates and agents of political parties on April 29 and 30 in their constituencies to verify and ensure that they have the required documents to enter the counting centre.
Here it is needed to mention that HC reprimed EC by saying that the ECI should be booked for murder. The Principal Bench consisting of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy also said that they will cancel the counting of votes on May 2 if ECI does not submit a clear blueprint of how it intends to maintain COVID-19 protocols in the centres. Now, ECI is in action and working on covid protocol.
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