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Manipur Assembly election 2012 - schedule details
The poll date has been scheduled to be held on Jan 28 while election counting will be done on Mar 4. This time it would be an acide test for Okram Ibobi Singh who helped Indian National Congress (INC) to grab power in the state government for last two consecitive years.
The main opposition party alliance consist Manipur People’s Party, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Janata Dal United (JD-U).
Election officials announced that Two hundred and seventy nine candidates will be contested in the upcoming crucial election. The announcement surfaced following the minute scrutiny and withdrawal of papers by contestants.
Schedule
for
General
Election
to
the
Legislative
Assembly
of
Manipur
2012
SL.
No.
Poll
Event
Dates
1
Issue
of
Notification
04.01.2012
(Wednesday)
2
Last
date
for
making
Nominations
11.01.2012
(Wednesday)
3
Scrutiny
of
Nominations
12.01.2012
(Thursday)
4
Last
date
for
withdrawal
of
candidature
14.01.2012
(Saturday)
5
Date
of
Poll
28.01.2012
(Saturday)
6
Counting
of
Votes
04.03.2012
(Sunday)
7
Date
before
which
election
process
shall
be
completed
09.03.2012
(Friday)
All
60
ACs
will
go
to
poll
on
a
single
day.
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Story first published: Sunday, January 15, 2012, 18:16 [IST]