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Agencies
New Delhi:
A meeting of the Election Commission on Monday is likely to decide about the schedule for assembly polls in six states including Jammu and Kashmir. Along with Jammu and Kashmir, polls are due in Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Mizoram, where the tenure of the assemblies will expire this year.
It was, however, not clear whether the poll panel would announce the schedule for Jammu and Kashmir in view of the difference of opinion among some of the political parties though the Centre was keen on holding the elections on time. Senior EC officials met today to work out details of the schedule. However, EC sources refused to give any hint on the possible dates.
Union Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta had briefed the EC on Friday on the availability of security forces for conducting elections in the poll-bound states. The EC's meeting with top Home Ministry officials took place after the panel returned here following a two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir last week where it met various political parties to elicit their views on the timing of the elections.
The EC delegation had also met senior civil and police officials to review the poll preparations. During the talks the EC had with political parties in Srinagar, they said they would abide by the panel's decision though they claimed the current atmosphere was not conducive for elections.
The BJP and Left parties want immediate elections while Congress is saying it will be decided by the EC. The term of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, which was dissolved following the breakup of the Congress-PDP coalition after the Amarnath land transfer row, would have ended on November 20. But since the state was placed under Governor's rule, the elections have to be held before January 10.
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