Thursday, August 16th, 2018

The Election Commission has decided to follow the law and established practice and conduct the Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Mizoram assembly polls as one round, finishing before mid-December, when the Mizoram assembly’s term runs out. The decision all but ends suggestions from some political quarters that these polls be merged with the Lok Sabha election due in April-May next year. Room for Maharashtra and Haryana BJP president Amit Shah’s letter to the Law Commission in favour of simultaneous polls is now seen mainly as a way to keep theRead More