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  • Arunachal Pradesh Assembly elections: Counting of votes for Arunachal Pradesh Assembly elections to begin at 6 am on June 2

    Counting of votes for the Arunachal Pradesh Assembly elections will begin at 6 am on June 2, an official said here on Wednesday. Assembly and Lok Sabha elections were held simultaneously in Arunachal Pradesh on April 19.

    “Over 2000 officials will be deployed for counting of votes on both the days – (June 2 Assembly election and June 4 Lok Sabha),” the official said.

    Counting of votes for assembly elections will start from 6 am on June 2 while that for Lok Sabha polls would start from 8 am on June 4, Chief Electoral Officer Pawan Kumar Sain said. “This time we have decided to conduct counting for all constituencies in a district simultaneously and will try to announce the results by noon,” Sain said, adding that media centres would be set up in all counting centres to disseminate information on counting updates. AllUttar PradeshMaharashtraTamil NaduWest BengalBiharKarnatakaAndhra PradeshTelanganaKeralaMadhya PradeshRajasthanDelhiOther StatesCounting of votes for 50 assembly seats out of a total of 60, will be held in 24 centres in the state on June 2 while that for Lok Sabha seats would be conducted in 25 centres on June 4, Joint Chief Electoral Officer Liken Koyu said. The ruling BJP has already won 10 seats in the 60-member assembly unopposed. The second round of training for officials for counting of votes ended on Tuesday, an official said. “A three-tier security barricade have been made in all the counting centres comprising personnel of central paramilitary forces, state armed police and state civil police, available in the state,” the CEO said.

    “I had already convened a coordination meeting with all the district electoral officers (DEOs) and superintendents of police (SPs) to review the law and order situation along with chief secretary and director general of police, where the DGP directed all SPs to ensure peaceful counting process,” Sain said.

    The CEO said that the DEOs have been instructed to ensure that counting agents of various political parties enter the counting centres without cell phones.

    A total of 133 candidates contested in the assembly seats while 14 in the two Lok Sabha seats.

    In the Arunachal West Parliamentary seat, eight candidates including Union Earth Sciences Minister Kiren Rijiju and state Congress president Nabam Tuki contested the elections.

    Sitting BJP MP Tapir Gao and state Congress vice-president Bosiram Siram are among the six candidates who contested from Arunachal East Lok Sabha seat.

    The BJP had won both the Lok Sabha seats in the 2019 elections while in the assembly the party had bagged 41 seats. The JD (U) had won seven seats, NPP in five, Congress in four while the PPA had secured one seat and Independent candidates got two.

  • Arunachal election: Trouble during nomination paper scrutiny, security forces fire in air

    There was stone pelting and security forces fired in the air to disperse the crowd in Longding in Arunachal Pradesh. There was trouble during the scrutiny of nomination papers.

    A senior police officer who does not want to be named told ET, “There was stone pelting by a group during the scrutiny of the nomination papers, security forces had to fire in the air to disperse the crowd. Superintendent of Police Dekio Gumja sustained injuries in the stone pelting.”

    The assembly elections in Arunachal Pradesh will be held in the first phase on April 19. Nominations ended on Wednesday.Elections to the 25 Lok Sabha seats across eight northeastern states will be held in the first three phases of the seven-phase 2024 parliamentary elections, with 15 seats, including one (Outer Manipur) partly, going to the polls in the first phase (April 19), seven (one partly– Outer Manipur) in the second phase (April 26) and four in the third phase (May 7).

    Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar announced the schedule of Assembly elections of the two northeastern states – Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim, along with two other states – Andhra Pradesh and Odisha.

    The assembly elections in Arunachal Pradesh (60 seats) and Sikkim (32 seats) will be held in the first phase on April 19.

  • Arunachal state Cong chief to continue in his post

    Former Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki, a day after resigning from the post of state Congress President, on Saturday said that he would continue to discharge his responsibilities in that post.

    According to him the party high command yet to accept his resignation letter.

    Tuki, also Congress MLA from the Sagalee assembly constituency, said that he had offered to resign from the post of PCC President on Friday because he is unable to assist those who intend to contest the upcoming assembly elections in Arunachal Pradesh and campaign for them as he would also be contesting the polls.“Hence, I thought I should resign from the post of state party President for the convenience for me and other possible candidates,”

    He dismissed media reports that he had quit from the post of state party President “on moral grounds” after the recent defection of three MLAs to the BJP.

    Tuki has been at the helm of the APCC for several years, overseeing the party’s strategies and engagements.Congress Legislature Party leader Lombo Tayeng, a six-time MLA from Mebo constituency in East Siang district, joined the BJP after the two other party legislators — Ninong Ering and Wanglin Lowangdong — also joined the BJP.After the three MLAs joining the BJP, Tuki is the lone legislator in 60-member Arunachal Pradesh assembly.

  • Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra: From Manipur to Mumbai, Rahul Gandhi to cover 15 states and 100 LS seats – The Economic Times Video

    Congress has announced its Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra campaign, led by Rahul Gandhi. The campaign will start in Manipur on January 14 and end in Mumbai, covering 15 states, 110 districts, and 100 Lok Sabha seats over 66 to 68 days. Here’s all you need to know about this campaign.