Gujarat govt, HC reschedule holiday for Prophet Mohamed B’day , SEC makes minor correction in gram panchayat polls schedule

Gandhinagar/Ahmedabad: The Gujarat government and the High Court today announced a correction in their earlier holiday schedule instructing that the holiday for Eid-Milad-Un-Nabi (the birthday of Prophet Mohamed) will now be observed on December 12 instead of earlier notified date of December 13.

The State Election Commission also issued a new notification for a minor correction in the earlier schedule for the Gram Panchayat elections to be held later this month.

Separate notifications by the the General administration department of the state government and the office of the Registrar General of the high court issued today said that the holiday for the festival would be observed on December 12 and the offices and the courts would remain open on December 13.

The SEC notification on the other hand said that owing to the change in the holiday date, the scrutiny of nominations will now take place on December 13 instead of earlier notified December 12. Other dates of the schedule will remain unchanged. The nomination process for the polls in over ten thousand gram panchayats had begun on December 5 with the issue of notification for the same. Tomorrow is the last date for filing papers. The scrutiny will now take place on December 13.

The election will be held between 8am to 5pm on December 27 while the counting of votes will be done on December 27.

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