Srinagar: Jammu & Kashmir Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) has written to the district election officers (DEOs) to start the activities listed in the Election Commission of India’s election planner for holding assembly polls in the Union Territory.
In a letter, addressed to all 20 deputy commissioners, who also happen to be the district election officers, the CEO has asked them to begin the activities to be undertaken as the “election planner” communicated by the ECI.
“As you are aware that the process of conducting elections to the Legislative Assembly of Jammu & Kashmir has been set in motion by Election Commission of India by issuing schedule for summary revision of electoral roll vide its letter No: 23/2024-ERS(vol.III) dated 20-06-2024. I am accordingly directing you to get started the activities envisaged in the election planner communicated by Election Commission of India vide letter No: 464/INST/2022-EPS dated 27-12-2022 so that the pre-poll activities are carried out in a befitting manner and completed within stipulated timeframe for successful conduct of elections to the Legislative Assembly,” reads the letter sent to DEOs.
Following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s assertion on June 20, while in Srinagar, that preparations have begun for holding assembly polls in J&K, ECI also issued the schedule for summary revision of electoral rolls.
The announcement and the follow-up has come as a big relief to the people of J&K, who have been waiting from years to have a government run by their own representatives.
