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Elections during a Pandemic Chapter 7
Commission of India had a lean electoral calendar for the to contain the spread of COVID-19. The scheduled voting
year 2020. Two days before elections for seats to Rajya could not take place. Later, on April 3, 2020 – under
Sabha from Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Madhya lockdown conditions – the Election Commission decided to
Pradesh, Meghalaya and Rajasthan were to be contested, a postpone the elections by invoking Section 153 of the
nationwide lockdown was announced on March 24, 2020 Representation of the People Act, 1951.
COVID-safety measures including physical distancing, sanitisation, etc., were strictly enforced during Rajya Sabha Election in Shillong, Meghalaya
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