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4. PIB Press Release ID: 1610801, Election Commission of 18. Press Note: ECI/PN/64/2021 dated May 5, 2021 (ECI
India, April 3, 2020 (ECI further defers Rajya Sabha poll decides to defer bye-elections of Parliamentary and
in view of COVID-19). Assembly Constituencies in various States/UT in view of
Pandemic)
5. PIB Press Release ID: 1628365, Election Commission of
India, dated June 1, 2020 Date of Poll and Counting for 19. PIB Press Release ID: 1711434 (Shri Sushil Chandra
Deferred Rajya Sabha Poll) takes over as 24th CEC of India)
6. PIB Press Release ID: 1628418, Election Commission of 20. PIB Press Release ID: 1709905 (Polling in Kerala, Tamil
India, June 1, 2020 (Biennial Elections to the Council of Nadu, Puducherry and for Phase 3 Assembly Constituencies
States to fill the seats of members retiring between June in Assam and West Bengal conducted peacefully)
to July 2020
21. PIB Press Release ID: 1709710 (ECI hosts 2 day
7. Umesh Sinha, Redefining Election Management amdist International Virtual Election Vistors Programme, 2021
Pandemic; Indian Experience, Voice International on April 5-6, 2021)
Magazine (January 2021),
22. PIB Press Release ID: 1705419 (Huge push by ECI to
8. https://theprint.in/india/decision-to-hold-bihar-polls-a- curb menace of money power during ongoing elections
leap-of-faith-not-leap-in-the-dark-says-cec-sunil- in states of Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and
arora/510623/ (Decision to hold Bihar polls a leap of Union Territory of Puducherry).
faith, not leap in the dark, says CEC Sunil Arora)
23. Various issues of The Statesman, Kolkata
9. ECI, Voter Guide: Towards a COVID Free Elections
10. ECI Press Note (25th September, 2020), Annexure 2
Chapter 8
11. Bihar CEO, Press Release, October 1, 2020
Milestones - A Constant Endeavour
12. ECI, State Election 2020 to the Legislative Assembly of
1. ECI, Compendium of Instructions on Paid News and
Bihar, Highlights
Related Matters (2015),
13. ECI, Electors Summary Data, Annexure-1 (Bihar LA
2. M.S. Gill, Elections in India: Major Events and New
elections, 2020)
Initiatives (2000),
14. Press Note: Schedule for bye-elections to fill casual
vacancy in the Parliamentary Constituency of Bihar and 3. ECI, ERONET brochure (2020)
Legislative Assemblies in various stated dated September
4. ECI, cVIGIL (2020),
29, 2020
5. ECI, Observer App brochure
15. Vide Reply to Lok Sabha Unstarrred Question No.2014
dtd February 12, 2021 6. ECI, This Time to Vote with PwD Application (2020)

16. Announcement of General Election to the Legislative 7. ECI, 11th National Voters Day- 25th January, 2021;
Assemblies of Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal Making Our Voters Empowered, Vigilant, Safe and
and Puducherry dated February 26, 2021 Informed (2021)

17. Press Note: ECI/PN/66/2021 dated May 13, 2021 (ECI 8. Vide Election Commission letter No.51.8/INST/2018-
push for wide ranging reforms) EMS dated June 28, 2018 to CEOs in all states/UTs

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