“No chance at all”, says CEC on possibility of simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly polls
Putting to rest all speculation, Chief Election Commissioner O P Rawat today emphatically ruled out the possibility of holding simultaneous elections to the state assemblies along with the Lok Sabha polls anytime soon.Rawat also said a legal framework is needed to be in place for holding simultaneous polls.There has been some speculation in the recent weeks that Assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Mizoram due this year end may be deferred and held simultaneously along with the Lok Sabha elections, scheduled for April-May 2019.While the term of the…
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