Letter to extend the date of assembly elections in MP, what is the truth?
A letter has gone viral on social media on wednesday (1 November) in Madhya Pradesh. In which it wassaid that due to Chhath festival, the elections to be held on november 17 have been postponed. As soon asthis letter went viral, a round of discussion started among the political parties as well as the common people.The viral truth of this entire letter came to light during investigation.It is noteworthy that the election commission has already released the complete program regarding theassembly elections in Madhya Pradesh. In madhya pradesh, the last date for withdrawal of nominations istill november 2. After this, elections are to be held on 17th November. Counting of votes will take place onDecember 3. Amidst this entire programme, a letter is going viral on social media, in which it is being saidthat the election date has been extended. When this matter was discussed with Dewas collector and ElectionOfficer Rishav Gupta, he told that this letter is completely fake.District election officials made this appealSimilarly, ujjain collector Kumar Purushottam has also termed the viral letter as fake and wrong. Voting isto be held in madhya pradesh only on 17th November. Regarding this viral letter, the district ElectionOfficers have also appealed that people should not make this fake letter related to voting viral on socialmedia, so that more confusion does not arise. In the investigation of ABP News, this letter has been found tobe fake, the claims made in it related to the elections are also fake and wrong.More than 5 crore 60 lakh voters will vote5 crore 60 lakh 60 thousand 925 voters will exercise their franchise in the madhya pradesh Assemblyelections. The election commission is continuously spreading publicity regarding maximum voting. Thistime, elderly voters (above 80 years) have been given special facilities by the Commission regarding voting.In this the number of male voters is two crore 81 lakh 26 thousand 191. The number of women voters is 2crore 62 lakh 49 thousand 578, while there are 1326 third gender voters.