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While parties have already begun preparations for the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, a full bench of the Election Commission of India has reached on a three-day visit to Lucknow to discuss preparations and possibilities for conducting polls slated early next year.
Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra, Election Commissioners Rajiv Kumar and Anup Chandra Pandey, along with other senior officers of the ECI, are here to review the preparations for the Assembly elections in meetings with state government officers.
The discussions that include meeting with the political parties is likely to give some clear indications upon holding elections by Thursday. Commission will hold a meeting with the representatives of national and recognised political parties. Later, there will be a meeting with Chief Electoral Officer (Uttar Pradesh) Ajay Kumar Shukla. There will be a separate meeting with the officers of various enforcement agencies on Tuesday.
On Wednesday, the ECI will hold a meeting with divisional commissioners, district electoral officers, commissioners of police, inspectors general of police (zone) and superintendents of police of all 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh to discuss the preparedness level for the elections.
UP elections on 403 assembly seats are to be conducted early next year and all the parties have launched their intensified campaigning programmes. The BJP, Samajwadi Party, Congress and BSP all have launched campaigns to garner voters’ support.
