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Bihar polls, bye-polls in States to be held together: EC

By Spl Correspondent

NEW DELHI, Sept 4 - The Election Commission on Friday decided to conduct all the 65 bye-elections and the General Assembly Elections of Bihar around the same time.

Election Commission (EC) sources said that a meeting was held today regarding holding of bye-elections due in various States.

There are two Assembly bye-elections due in Assam � Rangapara and Sivasagar � following the deaths of sitting MLAs Rajen Borthakur and Pranab Kumar Gogoi, respectively.

Elsewhere in Northeast, five seats are vacant in Manipur and two seats in Nagaland.

Currently, there are 65 clear vacancies due for bye-elections in Assembly/Parliamentary Constituencies, out of which there are 64 vacancies in the State Legislative Assemblies of various States and one vacancy for Parliamentary constituency.

The Commission reviewed the reports and inputs from Chief Secretaries and Chief Electoral Officers of many of the concerned States seeking deferment of the bye-elections in their States in view of several factors, including the extraordinary heavy rains in some places and other constraints like pandemic.

The Assembly elections of Bihar need to be completed before November 29, 2020 and the major factors in clubbing them together is the relative ease of movement of Central Armed Police Force and other law-and-order forces, and related logistics issues.

Announcement of schedule of Bihar Assembly elections as well as these bye-elections will be done by the poll panel at appropriate time, informed the sources.

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