EC yet to hear from oppn after Congress plea for 'urgent' meet

NEW DELHI: Congress had approached Election Commission connected June 30 seeking an "urgent" gathering "any clip aft 4 p.m. connected July 2" betwixt the canvass sheet and a delegation comprising 10 absorption parties to sermon the ongoing peculiar intensive revision (SIR) of rolls successful Bihar.

However, EC, contempt penning backmost to each of the 10 parties to bespeak availability of their representatives astatine 5 p.m. connected July 2, is yet to perceive from them.EC sources said the "July 2" gathering with the multi-party absorption delegation frankincense stood deferred arsenic nary confirmations were received. Sources told TOI that portion the message received from All India Congress Committee (AICC) for the multi-party delegation's assignment with EC was unilateral, the committee sent its effect the aforesaid time to each of the 10 parties - Congress, RJD, TMC, DMK, Samajwadi Party, NCP, JMM, CPI, CPM and CPI(ML) Liberation - seeking their confirmations for a gathering astatine 5 p.m. connected July 2.However, not 1 of the 10 parties had responded to EC's message till precocious connected Tuesday, arsenic per EC sources. Even so, a TMC delegation met EC connected Tuesday arsenic portion of its ongoing consultation with parties connected each election-related issues. During this, the erstwhile suggested that 2024 beryllium utilized arsenic the basal twelvemonth for SIR, acceptable to beryllium taken up successful Bengal up of elections adjacent year.