{"id":40401,"date":"2025-04-01T14:11:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T14:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/punjabenews.com\/?p=40401"},"modified":"2025-04-01T14:11:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T14:11:02","slug":"ecis-biggest-engagement-drive-with-political-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punjabenews.com\/English\/latest\/ecis-biggest-engagement-drive-with-political-parties\/","title":{"rendered":"ECI\u2019s biggest engagement drive with political parties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>ECI\u2019s biggest engagement drive with political parties<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 4,719 meetings conducted at CEOs, DEOs, and EROs level nationwide engaging over 28,000 party representatives<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chandigarh, April 1:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Election Commission of India (ECI) conducted a series of structured engagements with political parties at the level of Electoral Registration Officer (ERO), District Election Officer (DEO), and Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) across the country. In a span of 25 days and as of 31st March 2025, a total of 4,719 meetings were conducted, with 40 meetings by CEOs, 800 by DEOs, and 3,879 by EROs, engaging over 28,000 representatives of political parties nationwide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 These meetings were held in accordance with the directives issued by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Shri Gyanesh Kumar along with ECs Dr Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Dr Vivek Joshi, during the Chief Electoral Officers&#8217; conference held on March 4-5 2025, at IIIDEM, New Delhi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The engagements are aimed to resolve any pending issues by the concerned competent authority i.e. ERO or DEO or CEO within the existing legal framework of the Representation of the People Act 1950 and 1951; the Registration of Electors Rules, 1960; the Conduct of Elections Rules, 1961 and the manuals, guidelines, and instructions issued by ECI from time to time. An action taken report has been sought from all State\/UT CEOs for further assessment and any issue, if unresolved within the existing legal framework, will be taken up by the Commission.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 These engagements have been well-received by political parties, with active and enthusiastic participation across Assembly Constituencies, districts, and States\/UTs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ECI\u2019s biggest engagement drive with political parties \u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 4,719 meetings conducted at CEOs, DEOs, and EROs level nationwide engaging over 28,000 party representatives Chandigarh, April 1: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Election Commission of India (ECI) conducted a series of structured engagements with political parties at the level of Electoral Registration Officer (ERO), District Election Officer (DEO), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-punjab"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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