Punjab BJP too endorses Punjab CM’s call to postpone Punjab elections
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Now, BJP Punjab unit has also demanded the Election Commission of India to postpone the upcoming Punjab assembly elections.
In a letter to Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra, today BJP Punjab state general secretary Subash Sharma and Som Prakash, Union Minister of State also wrote that it was brought to their notice by some representatives of the Scheduled Castes community, which contributes around 32 per cent of the state’s population, that the birth anniversary of Guru Ravidas falls on February 16.
Earlier, Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi had also urged the Election Commission of India to postpone the February 14 assembly polls by six days in view of Guru Ravidas Jayanti.
Voting for Punjab’s 117 assembly seats is set to be held on February 14 and the counting of votes will take place on March 10.
“On this occasion, a large number of SC (Scheduled Caste) devotees (about 20 lakh) from the state are likely to visit Banaras in Uttar Pradesh from February 10 to 16,” Channi, Som Parkash, Subash Sharma wrote.
“In such a situation, many people from this community would not be able to cast their votes for the state assembly, which is otherwise their constitutional right,” they said in their respective letters
January 16,2022
