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ECI Asserts its Authority Chapter 4

A woman casting her vote in Delhi Assembly Election, 1993

from date of no fica on to declara on of results. The governments failed to distribute the EPICs before the
elec ons, however, threw up a stable government at the elec ons. This issue was cri cally debated in the Rajya
Centre. The job was cut out for the new Chief Elec on Sabha on December 30, 1993. The Legisla ve Assembly
Commissioner, T.N. Seshan. His focus was on new ini a ves. elec ons in Gujarat, Orissa (now Odisha), Bihar and
Arunachal Pradesh were postponed between a week to a
The Electors Photo Iden ty Card (EPIC) was introduced for month in early 1995. This brought the Chief Elec on
poll bound states in 1993. The Chief Elec on Commissioner Commissioner into collision course with several par es.
even threatened to cancel the elec ons, if the state The voters, however, cheered the EPIC project.

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