Congress Central Election Committee meeting on January 25, strategy for Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland elections will be made

New Delhi: Congress’ Central Election Committee meeting will be held on January 25, in which the party will decide on the names of candidates for the upcoming assembly elections in 3 states – Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya. The Election Commission had announced the assembly election schedule of these three states on January 18. Tripura will vote on February 16, while Meghalaya and Nagaland will vote on February 27. The assembly election results of all the three states will be announced simultaneously on March 2. One similarity in the Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland assembly elections is that the majority mark in all the three states is 31.

Candidates will be able to file nominations for the assembly elections from January 21 to January 30 in Tripura, from January 31 to February 7 in Meghalaya and Nagaland. The last date for withdrawal of nominations is February 2 in Tripura, and February 10 in Meghalaya-Nagaland. Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar had told that 9 thousand 125 polling stations have been set up in all the three states. Talking about rural areas, 82% more polling stations have been made as compared to 2018. Women staff will handle 376 polling stations in all the three states. The total number of voters in Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland is 62.8 lakh. Of these, there are 31.47 lakh women voters and 97 thousand voters who are above 80 years of age. There are 1.76 lakh first time voters in all the three states.

Rajeev Kumar said that the participation of women voters is high in all the three states and electoral violence is also very less here. We are committed to conduct fair elections in all the three states. Longwa village in Mon district of Nagaland is the last village on the Indo-Myanmar border. One part of the village is in India and the other in Myanmar. The people of the village have dual citizenship. Local people can move freely across the border without any visa-passport or documents. About five hundred families of the Konyak Naga tribe live here. A polling station will also be made here.

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