Posted on 21 May, 2016 2:47 pm

There is a clear vacancy in State Legislative Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir, which needs to be filled up:

 

Sl. No.	State	Number and Name of Assembly Constituency
1	Jammu & Kashmir	40 - Anantnag

 

After taking into consideration various factors like local festivals, electoral rolls, etc., the Commission has decided to hold bye-election to fill this vacancy as per the programme mentioned as under: -

Poll Events	Schedule
Issue of Notification	25.05.2016 (Wed)
Last Date of Making Nomination	01.06.2016 (Wed)
Date for Scrutiny of Nomination	02.06.2016 (Thur)
Last Date of Withdrawal of candidatures	04.06.2016 (Sat)
Date of Poll	19.06.2016 (Sun)
Date of Counting of Votes	22.06.2016 (Wed)
Date before which election shall be completed	24.06.2016 (Fri)

 

 

 

ELECTORAL ROLL

            The Electoral Roll of 40-Anantnag Assembly Constituency of Jammu and Kashmir where bye-election is being held has been revised with reference to 01.01.2016 as the qualifying date and finally published on 11.01.2016.

ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES (EVMs)

                        The Commission has decided to use EVMs in the bye-elections in all the polling stations. Adequate numbers of EVMs have been made available and all steps have been taken to ensure that the polls are conducted smoothly with the help of these machines.

IDENTIFICATION OF VOTERS

                        In consonance with the past practice, the Commission has decided that the voter’s identification shall be mandatory in the aforementioned bye- elections at the time of poll. Electoral Photo Identity Cards (EPIC) shall be the maindocument of identification of a voter. However, in order to ensure that no voter is deprived of his/her franchise, if his/her namefigures in the Electoral Rolls, separate instructions will be issued to allow additional documents for identification of voters at the time of poll in the said bye-elections.

MODEL CODE OF CONDUCT

                        The Model Code of Conduct shall come into force with immediate effect in the district(s) in which the whole or any part of the Assembly Constituencies going for bye-election is included, subject to partial modification as issued vide Commission’s instruction No. 437/INST/2012/CC&BE, dated 26^th April, 2012 (available on the Commission’s website). TheModel Code of Conduct shall be applicable to all candidates, political parties and the State Government concerned. The Model Code of Conduct shall also be applicable to the Union Government for the State concerned.

 

Election Commission of India

New Delhi 21^st May 2016