General Election 2024: Returning Officers issued public notice for filling of nomination papers
PESHAWAR (APP): The Returning Officers on Tuesday issued public notice for filling of nomination papers for the national and provincial assemblies seats for 2024 general election.
In his address to the training session of District Returning Officers here at local hotel, Chief Secretary Khyber Pathunkhwa, Nadeem Aslam Chaudhry here Tuesday said today was very important day as the ROs have issued public notices, inviting candidates to file nomination papers for the National and Provincial Assemblies seats.
He assured the DROs all-out support in conduct of free, fair and transparent elections in Khyber Pakthunkhwa.
The Chief Secretary said that conducting the general election was a national obligation and together we would be able to hold free, fair and transparent elections in the country. He directed the relevant authorities to ensure accessibility of persons with disability voters to the polling stations so that they could easily exercise their right of vote on February 08, 2024.
According to ECP’s election schedule for 2024 general election, nomination papers could be filed with respective returning officers by the candidates on December 20-22, 2023 while names of the nominated candidates would be published on December 23.
Similarly, December 24-30 was fixed as last date for filing of appeals against decisions of the returning officers regarding rejection/acceptance of nomination papers while the last date for deciding appeals by the Appellate Tribunal was fixed as January 03, 2024.
The last date for deciding appeal against decisions of the returning officer regarding acceptance or rejection of appeals by the appellate tribunal was fixed as January 10, 2024 while revised list of candidates would be published on January 11 and the last date for withdrawal of candidature.
The publication of the revised list of candidates has been fixed as January 12. Election symbols to candidates would be allocated to contesting candidates on 13th January while polling would be held on February 08, 2024.
This election program would also apply to the seats reserved for women and non-Muslims in the National Assembly and provincial assemblies of Punjab, Sindh, KP and Balochsitan. The last date of filing of a separate priority list for seats reserved for women and non-Muslims before the Returning Officer is December 22, 2023.
