Preparations for assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir intensify, EC holds meeting, know what plans have been made

Preparations for the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir have intensified. On Friday, the Election Commission held a meeting with the Chief Secretary, top police officials and political parties. After the meeting, a senior Election Commission official said that we are ready to conduct elections as before.

The Election Commission held a meeting regarding the preparations for the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir. After the meeting, the returning officer said that the Lok Sabha elections have been completed, due to which long queues were seen in the Lok Sabha elections. The message of peace spread all over the world. Long queues were seen here. A good message went to the whole world from Jammu and Kashmir. We met many political parties of Jammu and Kashmir. All political parties demand that assembly elections be held in Jammu and Kashmir as soon as possible.

Election Commission met political parties

The Election Commission said that we met about 9 political parties. They appreciated the organisation of the Lok Sabha elections and demanded that the assembly elections be held as soon as possible. The parties met the Election Commission and suggested that people should get local government. They also raised the issue of providing equal security to political activities.

Officials said that a delegation of the Election Commission comprising Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar, Election Commissioners Gyanesh Kumar and SS Sandhu arrived in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday. The delegation held discussions with Jammu and Kashmir Chief Secretary Atal Dulloo and Jammu and Kashmir Police DGP RR Swain. Election preparations were also reviewed with security agencies in the meeting.

Assembly elections will be held after 10 years

Officials said the meeting with the Election Commission delegation discussed providing security cover to candidates, deployment of security forces and other issues.

After the meeting, the Election Commission team also visited Jammu. It is worth noting that no assembly elections have been held in Jammu and Kashmir in the last 10 years. This is the first assembly election in 10 years. Assembly elections have not been held in Jammu and Kashmir since 2014. Assembly elections were proposed in early 2019 after the then state assembly was dissolved in 2018.