Chief Electoral Officer Anupam Rajan has said that the Model Code of Conduct has come into force in Madhya Pradesh from today with the announcement of elections.
According to the election schedule released by the Election Commission of India, voting will be held on 17th November and counting of votes will take place on 3rd December.
Election notification will be issued on 21st October and nomination papers can be submitted till 30th October.
Scrutiny of applications will take place on October 31 and the final list of candidates will be released along with withdrawal of nominations on November 2.
In the state, 5 crore 60 lakh 60 thousand 925 voters are enrolled in the photo electoral roll.
In this, the number of male voters is 2 crore 88 lakh 25 thousand 607 while the number of female voters is 2 crore 72 lakh 33 thousand 945.
Third gender voters are one thousand 373. Voting will be held in 64 thousand 523 polling stations in the state. 16 thousand 763 polling stations have been set up in urban areas and 47 thousand 760 polling stations have been set up in rural areas. Facilities like toilet, ramp, wheel chair, water, helpdesk, electricity etc. have been provided at each Madan centre. Polling stations for senior citizens and physically handicapped (PWD) voters have been set up on the ground floor. They have also been given the facility to vote from home (postal ballot). Such voters will have to fill Form 12D. Shri Rajan said that the use of loudspeakers is completely prohibited in the state from 10 pm to 6 am. Will remain banned. From today onwards, a team of public relations officers will keep a 24-hour vigil in Nirvachan Sadan to monitor the advertisements and news broadcast on news channels by the State Level Media Certification and Monitoring Committee (MCMC). Under the Madhya Pradesh Defacement of Property Act, instructions have been given to take action within prescribed limits to remove unauthorized defacement on government/public/private property. Teams have been formed and monitoring is being done at interstate checkpoints, illegal liquor, cash etc. in the state.
Two minute video and photos can be downloaded in GPS based C Vigal app by Election Commission of India. Any citizen will be able to send a complaint to the Commission through the app. During the elections, observers will keep an eye on the entire election process, including general observers, police and expenditure observers.
Even after the final publication of the voter list, eligible citizens can get their names added to the voter list. Applications for adding names to the voter list can be taken from citizens till 10 days before the last date for filing nomination papers. By following the prescribed procedure, eligible citizens will be able to get their names added as voters in the voter list.
