Bihar Assembly Election 2020: Bihar election 2020 will be the first assembly election to be held in the midst of the Kovid-19 epidemic. Election Commission of India has announced its dates. The term of the Bihar Legislative Assembly is till 29 November this year. Several political parties had asked the commission to postpone the elections in view of the epidemic. Although elections to Rajya Sabha were held in June.
In August, the Election Commission issued a standard guideline for the election and by-election between the coronavirus epidemic. However, Chief Election Officer Sunil Arora has issued the guidelines for the Bihar assembly elections in the press conference. This time there will not be much noise in the election campaign.
Election Commission Guidelines
This time the election time has been extended in Bihar, this time the voting for the election will be from 7 am to 6 pm. Corona patients have finally been given time to vote.
Corona victims will not be able to vote at the time of voting. Separate arrangements will be made for this. Arrangements of things like sabun, hand sanitizer will be arranged at every polling booth.
The door-to-door campaign is subject to restrictions. Only five people, including the candidate, have been allowed to go door-to-door campaigning. However, it does not include the number of security personnel.
The convoy of vehicles should be broken after every five vehicles instead of 10 vehicles. The difference between two convoys of vehicles should be half an hour instead of a 100-meter gap.
Everyone will wear a face mask during every election-related activity.
There will be a thermal screening of all individuals. Sanitizer, soap, and water will have to be provided at every booth.
Larger halls should be chosen as booths and counting centers to maintain social distancing.
The nomination form will be made available online. It can be filled online and its print can be taken out for submission.
The affidavit can also be filled online.
Candidates can deposit the bail amount online although there will also be an option to deposit cash.
Only two persons can accompany the candidate to submit the nomination.
Only two vehicles will be allowed during the nomination filing process.
The promotion will be done through digital mode only. Adherence to social distancing will be mandatory during election campaigning.
No more than 7 counting tables should be allowed in the counting hall. Therefore, three to four halls can be taken to count the votes of a constituency.
The maximum number of voters at a polling station in Bihar has been reduced from 1,500 to 1,000.