People are highly enthusiastic about the Assembly election results of the five States, including Chhattisgarh. They would remain throughout the day before the TV sets. In addition to national channels, regional news channels have also made preparations to telecast election results. Trends will start coming in the news channels from 9 in the morning.
Counting of votes of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, Rajasthan and Mizoram will start on Sunday at 7am. Polling was held in Chhattisgarh in two phases on November 11 and 19. The decision of the fate of total 985 candidates of 18 Assembly seats in the first phase and 72 Assembly seats in the second phase polling to be known today. In addition to the 985 candidates, all the political parties and over 1.25 crore voters, who had cast their votes are enthusiastic to know which party would come to power in the State and who is elected from the 90 seats of the State.
The counting will be held in the district headquarters. News channels have made special arrangements for the coverage of counting. Arrangements have been made at control rooms to give information about victory, defeat and trend. However, the public will get information through TV. Along with declaration of results, calculation for forming Government would also start. Therefore, people will stay in front of their TV sets whole day.
As the day falls on Sunday, all the Government offices would remain closed. Officers and employees will have the result of the election sitting in their houses. It is expected that results of all the seats will come out by evening. Results of some seats will late in the night. However, it would be made clear by evening that who will form the Government in the State.
PIB has also made arrangement for declaring election results and trends. Election results and trends of all the States will start coming on the website of PIB from 8 in the morning. Doordarshan news has also made arrangement for coverage of election results. Along with election results, discussions with political leaders and analysts would also be held in all channels.