Haryana to go to polls in single phase on Oct 1, counting on Oct 4: EC

The Election Commission (EC) on Friday announced that the Haryana Assembly polls will be held in a single phase on October 1. It added that the counting of votes will take place on October 4.

While announcing the poll schedule at a press conference in Delhi, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar said the Haryana and Maharashtra elections were held together in the past but had to be decoupled this time as they decided to conduct Assembly polls in Haryana along with the elections in Jammu and Kashmir. He added that the work of Block Level Officers in preparing for elections in Maharashtra was still pending owing to the monsoon.

The 90-seat Haryana Assembly’s term is ending on November 3. In the past three cycles, the EC had announced Haryana and Maharashtra elections together. Maharashtra Assembly’s term is expiring on November 26.

Haryana has about 2.01 crore electors spread over 20,629 polling stations, as per a draft electoral roll. The final electoral roll will be published on August 28.