{"id":136469,"date":"2020-09-05T02:00:18","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T20:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=136469"},"modified":"2020-09-05T02:00:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T20:30:35","slug":"sec-prepared-to-conduct-panchayatpolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/09\/05\/sec-prepared-to-conduct-panchayatpolls\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC prepared to conduct panchayat polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Sep 4:<\/strong> The State Election Commission (SEC) is in readiness to conduct the long-pending panchayat polls and awaiting the state government&#8217;s nod to go ahead, a senior official said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The SEC was prepared to hold the polls, pending since May 2018, in March-April this year, but the coronavirus lockdown caused inordinate delay, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Keeping in mind the suggestions of all stakeholders, including representatives of political parties, state government officials and medical professionals, it was decided to conduct<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0the elections only after the Covid-19 situation improves,&#8221; State Election Commissioner Hage Kojeen said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the SEC in its recent internal meetings reviewed the pandemic scenario, and also took into consideration the recent local civic body polls held in Mizoram.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The SEC has come up with standard operating procedures in tune with the guidelines of the Election Commission of India for conducting panchayat polls in Arunachal Pradesh,&#8221; Kojeen said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The proposed schedule for the polls has been put forth to the state government along with the Covid-19 SOPs, he said. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Sep 4: The State Election Commission (SEC) is in readiness to conduct the long-pending panchayat polls and awaiting the state government&#8217;s nod to go ahead, a senior official said on Friday. The SEC was prepared to hold the polls, pending since May 2018, in March-April this year, but the coronavirus lockdown caused inordinate delay, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-136469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}