Assembly Elections 2022 LIVE Updates: Will Physical Rallies Return? Election Commission To Decide Today
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Assembly Elections 2022 Live Updates: The five states - Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Manipur, and Goa - will submit the current status of vaccination and caseload in the virtual meeting.
A decision on whether political parties will be allowed to hold physical rallies in states going to polls starting next month will be taken today at a review meeting of the Election Commission. Physical campaigning was banned by the Commission - until January 15 first and later extended till January 22 - amid an unprecedented surge in cases of coronavirus in the country believed to be driven by the highly transmissible Omicron variant.
The poll body will today meet with the Union Health Secretary, and the Chief Secretaries and Health Secretaries of states headed for polls to take stock of the situation.
The five states - Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Manipur, and Goa - will submit the current status of vaccination and caseload in the virtual meeting.
Meanwhile, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra dropped a bombshell Friday morning when she hinted she could be the Congress's chief ministerial candidate for the Uttar Pradesh election. Hours later, she said she meant it in a "tongue-in-cheek" way.