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AIZAWL, 2 Dec:<\/strong> The NGO Coordination Committee (NGOCC), which spearheaded a peaceful movement for the change of date of counting of votes for the Mizoram assembly elections, on Saturday expressed happiness after the ECI deferred the date by a day.<\/p>\n Several political parties, churches, civil society groups and student bodies of Mizoram had demanded that the date of counting of votes be changed from 3 December, on account of it being a Sunday, a holy day in the Christian-majority state.<\/p>\n Heeding their demands, the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Friday changed the date to 4 December.<\/p>\n Addressing a press conference in Aizawl on Saturday, NGOCC chairman Lalhmachhuana thanked<\/p>\n the ECI for deferring the date of counting and lauded the people of the state for their support.<\/p>\n He attributed the deferment to the collective efforts of NGOs, churches, political parties and the general public.<\/p>\n NGOCC secretary Malsawmliana said that the agitators stuck to peaceful forms of protest and never had any plans to invoke violence or disturb the counting had it taken place on 3 December.<\/p>\n Counting of votes for Mizoram was earlier scheduled on 3 December, along with four other states – Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Telangana.<\/p>\n Besides requests to the ECI by political parties, NGOs and student bodies, prayers were also offered in various churches for “divine intervention” for the change of dates.<\/p>\n On 28 November, a five-member delegation of the NGOCC met Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar and other officials and urged them again to defer the counting date.<\/p>\n Polling for the 40-member Mizoram assembly was held on 7 November, with more than 80 per cent of over 8.57 lakh voters having cast their votes to decide the fates of 174 candidates. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" AIZAWL, 2 Dec: The NGO Coordination Committee (NGOCC), which spearheaded a peaceful movement for the change of date of counting of votes for the Mizoram assembly elections, on Saturday expressed happiness after the ECI deferred the date by a day. Several political parties, churches, civil society groups and student bodies of Mizoram had demanded that […]<\/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-229869","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\/229869","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=229869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}