ECI Re-Schedule Mizoram Assembly Polling Date Wed Oct 23,2013

As per the original timetable, Mizoram was to go to polls on Dec 4,2013 and the counting for all five states was slated to be on December 8,2013  Parties, NGOs and church leaders from a dozen denominations had last week written to the CEO requesting the date of polling be shifted to November 25 from December 4 as two large denominations-Presbyterians and Pentecostals-are scheduled to organize their annual meetings in the first week of December They also requested that the date of counting of votes, set for December 8, be rescheduled to fall on any day except Saturday and Sunday, the latter being a holy day for Christians that make up close to 90 percent of the state's population       

     The ECI on Wednesday advanced polling in Mizoram to November 25 in view of demands from political parties and other organisations of the state.

Counting in the state has also been rescheduled to December 9,2013 as reservations were expressed over holding counting on a Sunday, which has religious significance for Mizoram's large Christian community.