By-elections are due for 64 assembly seats and one Lok Sabha seat (File)
New Delhi:
The Bihar election and by-polls due for assembly and Lok Sabha seats all through the nation will in all probability be held on the same time for logistical causes, the Election Price talked about instantly.
The Election Price moreover talked about it’d announce the Bihar poll dates “at a suitable time”.
“Considering that the Bihar election may also be due and required to be completed sooner than 29th November, Price has decided to conduct the entire 65 by-elections and the Bihar election throughout the same time. Certainly one of many most important parts in clubbing them collectively is the relative ease of movement of the CAPF (Central Armed Police Forces) and totally different regulation and order forces and related logistics factors,” the election physique talked about.
In Bihar, apart from Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United) and the BJP, just about all most important political occasions have demanded that elections be postponed due to the coronavirus threat.
By-elections are due for 64 assembly seats and one Lok Sabha seat. These embrace assembly by-polls to fill 24 seats in Madhya Pradesh, which might be vacant as a result of the MLAs switched from the Congress to the BJP.
The change, which adopted Jyotiraditya Scindia’s exit from the Congress, led to the autumn of the Kamal Nath authorities and the BJP’s return to power.
These are the first most important elections to be held throughout the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Election Price had earlier launched new pointers for elections, which included door-to-door campaigns with solely 5 people, gloves for voters, a most of 1,000 voters at any polling gross sales house at a time, and temperature checks.
