Crucial meetings on Karnataka elections begins

Bangalore, Mar 4 (UNI) The full bench of the Election Commission headed by Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswamy today began the crucial meetings at Vidhana Soudha amidst the rumour about early elections to the Karnataka assembly.

He first presided over the meeting of the Election Commission of India which included Deputy Cheif Election Commissioner J Balakrishnan, Election Commissioners Navin Chawla and S Y Qureshi in.

The team would hold a day-long meeting with presiding officers, Deputy Commissioners of all districts and also with leaders of political parties, tomorrow.

The team is in the city to examine the updated electoral rolls and the fresh delimitation work of Assembly and Lok Sabha segments taken up by State Election Commission, as per the Kuldip Singh Commission recommendations.

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