In a
letter to the
election commission, the
haryana bjp requested that the
october 1
assembly elections be rescheduled due to vacations that fall on and around that date. The
congress took offense at the BJP's appeal, claiming that the saffron
party had conceded defeat. Former
chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda made this claim.
In a
letter to the
election commission,
haryana bjp chairman Mohan Lal Badoli stated that people's vacation schedules typically fall in the week before and after
october 1st, which may have an effect on the proportion of voters. He requested a fresh date be set by the poll body.
A member of the BJP's state
election management committee, Varinder Garg stated, "We have reasoned that the
assembly election date of
october 1 is preceded by a holiday on the weekend and followed by some holidays which may hit the voting percentage as
people tend to go on vacation on long weekends which are followed by holidays."
For many
people, Saturday,
september 28, is a holiday, but
sunday is also a holiday. In the state,
october 1 is a holiday designated for voting, and
october 2 is
gandhi Jayanti. On
october 3, Maharaja Agrasen Jayanti is observed as a holiday, he added.
Pankaj Agarwal, the state chief electoral officer, verified that the
election commission had a copy of Badoli's
letter via email on Friday. "We have received the communication from state
bjp and forwarded it to the
election commission," he stated to PTI.
Badoli wrote to the
election commission to request a modification in the
election date because of the prolonged holidays in
haryana,
chief minister Nayab Singh
saini stated.
"In order to boost the vote percentage, our
bjp state president, Mohan Badoli, has written to the poll Commission requesting a change in the poll schedule while consulting with other political parties. This
letter was produced in order to prevent the vote percentage from declining because there are constant holidays, according to Saini.