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Following the gazette notification by chief electoral officer (CEO) on Monday for election to the State’s lone Lok Sabha seat and by-election to the 26 Aonglenden (ST) Assembly constituency, the process of filing of nomination formally began on Monday. However, no one filed nomination on the first day.<\/p>\n
The last date for filing of nomination for both Lok Sabha seat and by-election is March 25, scrutiny of nominations is on March 26, last date for withdrawal of candidature is March 28, date of polls and by-poll is April 11, counting of votes is on May 23 and the date before which the entire election and by-election process should be completed is May 27.<\/p>\n
According to the notification issued by Returning Officer of Parliamentary constituency Motsuthung Patton, nomination papers can be delivered by a candidate or by any of his proposers to the commissioner and returning officer or to Limanenla, ADC (Hqs) and assistant returning officer, at the commissioner’s office between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. on any day, other than public holiday, not later than March 25.<\/p>\n
For the by-poll to the 26-Aonglenden Assembly constituency, nomination papers can be delivered by a candidate or by any of his proposers to returning officer Abhinav Shivam or Khiuzam Kaurinta, EAC (Hqs), assistant returning officer at the Mokokchung deputy commissioner’s office between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. on any day, other than public holiday, not later March 25. The nomination papers will be taken up for scrutiny at the Mokokchung ADC planning conference’s hall on March 26 at 11 a.m.<\/p>\n
Voting for the first phase would take place on April 11, said the notification signed by President Ram Nath Kovind.<\/p>\n In the first phase, voting will take place in Andhra Pradesh (25 seats), Telangana (17), Uttarakhand (5), Arunachal Pradesh (2), Meghalaya (2), Mizoram (1), Nagaland (1), Sikkim (1), and the Union Territories of Andaman and Nicobar (1) and Lakshadweep (1), the notification said.<\/p>\n Eight constituencies (out of 80) in Uttar Pradesh, two (of 42) in West Bengal, four (of 40) in Bihar and two (of 6) in Jammu and Kashmir will also go to polls in the first phase.<\/p>\n The electorate in five (of 14 constituencies) in Assam, one (of 11) in Chhattisgarh, seven (of 48) in Maharashtra, one (of two) in Manipur, four (of 21) in Odisha and one (of two) in Tripura would also cast their votes in this phase, the notification said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No nomination filed on Day-1 of electioneering<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Notification for 91 LS seats in first phase issued: <\/strong>The Election Commission Monday, issued notification for the first phase of the seven-phased Lok Sabha elections, kicking off the process of filing of nominations for 91 constituencies across 20 states and Union Territories.<\/p>\n