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NEW DELHI: A Jan 19 communication from the office of the chief electoral officer (CEO) of Delhi to 11 district election officers in the capital mentioning that Election Commission of India (ECI) has given. tentative..
" date for Lok Sabha elections in Delhi found its way to social media on Tuesday..
It pointed out that a tentative poll date is given by ECI for calculating the start and end dates in the election planner in which various activities in the build-up to the elections are given along with timelines and duration for each of them...
The statement clarified that April 16 mentioned as the tentative polling day in the communication had no bearing on the actual schedule of the elections, which the ECI would announce at an appropriate time...
A senior poll official said a number of activities, such as testing of electronic voting machines, holding voter awareness programmes, requisitioning staff from various offices for the formation of polling parties, hiring of vehicles and working out other logistics have to be carried out ahead of the elections...
