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Cong urges postponement of local body elections in Arunachal

Itanagar, Nov 20 (UNI) Opposition Congress which has been vehemently opposing State Election Commission (SEC) decision to hold the Panchayat and Municipal elections simultaneously on December 22 amid Covid-19 pandemic, on Friday urged the Commission for postponement of the polls till the arrival of the vaccine.
“Arunachal Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) urge upon the SEC to defer the Panchayat and Municipal elections 2020 till the arrival of Covid vaccine or conduct the elections in the month of March-April 2021,” the state unit of the Congress said in a statement shortly after a meeting was held by its president Nabam Tuki here on the local body elections.
The meeting was attended by the party MLAs, senior leaders and office-bearers, head of a frontal organisation and all the members of the party’s State Panchayat and Municipal Elections Committee 2020. They took a dig at the state Government over Covid-19 management and suggested to go for maximum tests in all the villages of the state, to ascertain the exact numbers of the infected person and take utmost care to combat the Covid-19 in the state.
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