'Yakeen Ho To Koi...': When CEC Sushil Chandra Read Urdu Couplet While Announcing Election 2022 Dates

CEC Sushil Chandra read a couplet that goes like "Yakeen ho to koi raasta nikalta hai, hawa ki oat bhi lekar chirag jalta hai" as he announced safety measures for safe conduct of polling.

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New Delhi: Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sushil Chandra on Saturday announced the dates for the assembly elections to be held in five states of the country i.e. Goa, Punjab, Manipur, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.

CEC Chandra said conducting elections during the Coronavirus epidemic is very challenging and in view of the spike in Covid-19 infections in the country, efforts have been made to keep all the polling booths completely safe from the dreaded virus.

Meanwhile, CEC Chandra also read a couplet that goes like "Yakeen ho to koi raasta nikalta hai, hawa ki oat bhi lekar chirag jalta hai" as he announced the safety measures to be taken by the Election Commission of India (ECI) for safe conduct of polling.

#WATCH | CEC Sushil Chandra reads a couplet while announcing the measures to be taken by ECI for the conduct of safe elections, "Yakeen ho to koi raasta nikalta hai, hawa ki oat bhi lekar chirag jalta hai." pic.twitter.com/eStC7tnu98

— ANI (@ANI) January 8, 2022

CEC Chandra announced there will be arrangements for masks, sanitizers and thermal scanners at all polling booths during the elections to be held in the five states.

Along with this, the Chief Election Commissioner said that postal ballots have been used for Covid-19 infected voters, differently-abled voters and voters above 80 years of age.

He said that all election officers and employees will be fully vaccinated against Covid. All polling booths will be fully sanitized. Also, the Chief Secretaries of the states have been asked to rapidly vaccinate the voters.

Keeping in mind the Covid-19 threat, polling time has been extended by one hour and more than 2 lakh 15 thousand polling booths have been set up.

Election Commission announces poll dates for elections in five state

First phase: Feb 10

Second phase: Feb 14

Third phase: Feb 20

Fourth phase: Feb 23

Fifth phase: Feb 27

Sixth phase: March 3

Seventh phase: March 7