Nagpur District administration fully prepared for filing of nominations for Maharashtra Assembly polls: Collector

Nagpur (Maharashtra) [India], October 22 (ANI): Nagpur District Collector Vipin Itankar on Tuesday said that the district administration is fully prepared for the filing of nominations for the Maharashtra Assembly election.
"District Administration and Returning Officer are prepared as nominations filing started today till 29th October," Vipin Itankar told ANI.
"On 20th November, voting will take place from 7 am to 6 pm. All preparations have been made and nomination centres and strong rooms are ready. All officers are ensuring the implementation of the model code of conduct," he added.
Itankar said that cyber experts have been made a part of the social media tracking team. He also urged the voters to come out in large numbers to vote.
Maharashtra will go to the polls on November 20 and the result will be declared on November 23.
Meanwhile, sources in the Maharashtra Chief Electoral Office said on Monday that allegations by Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut regarding the possibility of President's Rule in Maharashtra after assembly polls are completely baseless and lack understanding of constitutional provisions.
The sources told ANI that the Election Commissions role is to conduct the Elections and submit the list of newly elected MLAs to the Governor within six months of completion of the term of Assembly, as per Section 15 of RP Act 1951 read with Article 172(1) of the Constitution.
The Commission will conclude this process before November 26, 2024 and immediately after the counting is concluded on November 23.
After the list of newly-elected MLAs is submitted, the Governor can invite and call for the formation of the Government, within his mandated constitutional duties as per Article 164 of the Constitution, which is not bound by the term of expiry of Assembly i.e. November 26. The relevance of November 26, 2024 is only for completion of the election process by EC, the sources said.
Raut on Sunday alleged that the BJP was afraid of defeat in the Maharashtra assembly elections as the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance was confident of forming the government in the state.
"This is the reason the Election Commission has kept only a few days for government formation after poll results," he alleged. (ANI)