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Mizoram NGO Coordination Committee (NGOCC), a conglomerate of major civil societies and student bodies, will stage protests across the state on Friday to seek a change in the date of counting of votes for state assembly polls. The Committee announced that a protest rally is set to take place on December 1 in Aizawl between 11 am and 2 pm.

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00:00 Mizoram NGO Coordination Committee, a conglomerate of major civil societies and student bodies,
00:05 will stage protests across the state on Friday to seek a change in the date of counting of
00:10 votes for state assembly polls.
00:13 The committee announced that a protest rally is set to take place on December 1 in Aizawl
00:18 between 11 am and 2 pm.
00:20 The meeting expressed disappointment over the election commission's silence on the
00:24 pleas from various quarters to reschedule the counting date as it falls on a Sunday,
00:29 a sacred day for Christians who form the majority of the state's population.
00:33 Those who attended the meeting decided to stage demonstrations across the state on Friday
00:37 in protest against ECI failure to reschedule the counting date despite repeated appeals
00:41 by all political parties, churches and NGOCC, the committee said in a statement.
00:48 The election commission's decision to maintain the existing date has triggered discontent
00:52 among various groups, leading to the coordinated effort by the NGO Coordination Committee to
00:56 address the issue directly.
00:58 In Aizawl, the demonstrations will be held at Treasury Square near Rajbhavan between
01:02 11 am and 1 pm, the statement said.
01:05 Protests will also be held in other district headquarters under the leadership of NGOCC,
01:10 it said.
01:11 When the ECI had announced the election schedule on October 9, it had fixed December 3 as the
01:15 day for counting of votes for the five states, Mizoram, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan
01:20 and Tilangana.
01:21 However, political parties, NGOs, churches and other organisations in Mizoram did not
01:25 like the ECI's schedule because it fell on a Sunday and appealed to the poll panel
01:30 to reschedule the counting date.
01:31 On Monday, a five-member delegation of the NGOCC met Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv
01:36 Kumar and other officials in Delhi and appealed to them to reschedule the counting date.
01:41 Kumar, on his part, had told the NGOCC leaders that the matter will be discussed by full
01:45 members of the election commission soon as one election commissioner was not present
01:49 at Monday's meeting.
01:51 Polling for the 40-member Mizoram assembly was held on November 7, where more than 80
01:55 per cent of over 8.57 lakh voters cast their votes to decide the fate of 174 candidates.
02:01 Meanwhile, election officials said everything is in place to conduct the counting on Sunday.
02:11 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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