Delhi Assembly Election 2025 Date: The Election Commission on Tuesday announced the dates for the Delhi Assembly elections. The term of the current assembly is going to end on 23 February.
Delhi Assembly Election 2025 Date: The Election Commission on Tuesday announced the dates for the Delhi Assembly elections. Voting will be held on 5 February 2025 for 70 assembly seats in Delhi. Counting of votes will be done on 8 February 2025 and with this it will be decided who is going to form the next government in Delhi?
This is the election schedule in Delhi
- Election notification – 10 January
- Last date for nomination – 17 January
- Scrutiny of nomination papers – 18 January
- Last date for withdrawal of nomination – 20 January
- Date of voting – 5 February
- Date of counting – 8 February
‘Counting is going on for one month in the countries of the world’
Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar said that questions were raised on us that how does the voting figure increase after 5 pm? How do crores of votes increase? It has to be kept in mind that the sector magistrate collects the voting data between 9:30 am, 11:30 am, 1:30 pm, 3:30 pm and 5:30 pm. Form 17-C is given at the time of voting. When the officer collects all the machines by 7:30 pm, then the final data of his polling station is known, whereas we are told to give the data at 6 o’clock. People forget that in the big countries of the world, counting of votes goes on for one month.
‘EVMs are sealed after putting new batteries’
He said that new batteries are put in EVMs before the elections. It is sealed on the same day. On the day of voting, the seal is broken in front of the polling agent. Mock poll is conducted. Polling agents keep a record of who came and who went. They are given the number of votes cast in which. The entire process is repeated on the day of counting as well. Matching is done with Form 17C. After that, matching is also done with any five VVPATs. Questions have been raised on our process many times.
Name cannot be removed without Form 7: Election Commission
Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar said that Indian voters are very aware. Stories are still going on about the voter lists. There are about 70 seats. In which political parties and candidates are with us, whatever claims and objections come. They are shared with all the political parties. Name cannot be removed without Form 7.
EVM foolproof device for counting votes: Election Commission
Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar said that there is no evidence of unreliability or any flaw in EVM. There is no question of virus or bug coming in EVM. There is no question of illegal votes in EVM. No rigging is possible. The High Court and the Supreme Court are constantly saying this in different decisions, what else can be said? EVM is a foolproof device for counting votes. The allegations of tampering are baseless. We are speaking now because we don’t speak during elections.
The final voter list has been released
The Election Commission had released the final voter list for the Delhi Assembly elections on Monday. In this election, around two lakh voters are between 18 and 19 years of age. They will use their voting rights for the first time in the assembly elections. There are a total of 1 crore 55,24,858 voters in this list. There are 85,49,645 male voters in this, while there are 71,73,952 female voters. There are 1,261 third gender voters.
Names are added and removed as per the process
The Election Commission said that names are added and removed as per the process for the election process and voter list. For this, there is Form 6 and Form 7. Information about adding and deleting names is given to political parties from time to time.
1,67,329 new voters added
According to the information received from the Election Commission, in Delhi, from 29 October to 28 November, 1,35,089 voters applied under Form-6 and 83,825 under Form-8 for adding names in the voter list, changing the address, removing the name from the list and objections and suggestions. The concerned officials of the Election Commission resolved all the applications by 24 December. In this way, till the final voter list was released, 3,08,942 new names were added to the voter list. 1,41,613 names were removed. During this period, a total of 1,67,329 new voters were added.
Every application was checked
The Election Commission found that in a month from 16 December, 5.10 lakh new people applied to get their names added. This happened for the first time. This happened even though more than three lakh voters had been added to the new list within the stipulated time because this was happening within 20 days, when the time for objections and scrutiny had already passed. This was a matter of immediate scrutiny. All Electoral Registration Officers – EROs were directed to investigate. Every application was scrutinized. The concerned officers have been asked to do 100% verification.
