The Commission ' title='Election Commission '>Election Commission on Saturday extended the ban on exit polls for the assembly elections in Goa, Manipur, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh by a day to March 9, following the death of two contesting candidates.

'Conducting of exit poll and disseminating result of any exit poll now stands prohibited till 5.30 p.m. of March 9, 2017,' the poll panel said, as it adjourned, to March 9, the poll in Uttar Pradesh's Alapur and Uttarakhand's Karna Prayag, owing to the deaths of candidates Chand Shekhar and Kuldeep Singh Kanwasi respectively.