on Sunday, May 2, Votes counting to be held in five states namely as Assam, West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry assembly elections. Let us share that counting of voting to take place from morning 8 AM and continue late into the night. Amid the surge of corona pandemic, Election Commission has already issued guidelines for parties to stick to the corona protocol.

For your information let us share that as many as 1,100 counting observers will watch the process and candidates. Here it is to be noted that parties agents, those to be present in counting center will have to produce a negative COVID test report or double dose of vaccination certificate to get an entry, according to EC guidelines.

However, here it is to be noted that  there will be 2,364 counting halls as compared to 1,002 halls in 2016 in 822 assembly constituencies in view of the coronavirus guidelines, according to the Election Commission which had drawn flak from the courts over the conduct of polls during the pandemic. At least 15 rounds of sanitisation will be carried out at each centre, besides social distancing and other precautions, including a ban on gatherings, will be strictly followed during the counting by 95,000 officials.

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