Curtail election victory celebrations to contain COVID-19 spread: Ex-PM Deve Gowda in letter to PM Modi
The Hindu
During this period, Mr. Gowda said, the EC can evolve new rules for conduct of safe elections, and simultaneously, the vaccination programme has to be accelerated
Former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda has called for curtailing election victory celebrations, and postponement of all by-elections and local elections by six months as part of measures to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. All large public gatherings should be banned for the next six months, the JD(S) chief said in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi offering a few suggestions to contain the spread. "Steps should be taken immediately to curtail election victory celebrations in States that have gone to polls this month. Since no State legislature's term is expiring after May this year, all by-elections and local elections should be postponed by six months," the Rajya Sabha member said.More Related News