“For the North-East region, the hours of poll have fixed from 7 AM to 5 PM. However, in Manipur and Nagaland hours of poll have been fixed from 7 AM to 4 PM.
Also, due to certain security parameters in some other parliamentary constituencies, the poll hours have been fixed from 7 AM to 4 PM.”
Under provision of Section 56 of the Representation of People Act, 1951, the EC is empowered to fix the hours of poll which shall not be less than eight hours.
BJP leader wants polling time till 7 PM for maximum turnout
Bhopal: A BJP leader has demanded that the voting time in the Lok Sabha polls should be increased till 7 PM for an impressive voter turnout. “The EC has raised the polling time by an
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