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ECI Asserts its Authority Chapter 4

A woman casting her vote in Delhi Assembly Election, 1993

results. The elec ons, however, threw up a stable governments failed to distribute the EPICs before the
government at the Centre. elec ons. This issue was cri cally debated in the Rajya
Sabha on December 30, 1993. The Legisla ve Assembly
T.N Seshan strongly felt that introduc on of the Electors elec ons in Gujarat, Orissa (now Odisha), Bihar and
Photo Iden ty Card (EPIC) would remedy the situa on to a Arunachal Pradesh were postponed between a week to a
great extent. Consequently EPICs were introduced for poll month in early 1995. This brought the Chief Elec on
bound states in 1993. The Chief Elec on Commissioner Commissioner into collision course with several poli cal
even threatened to cancel the elec ons, if the state par es. The voters, however, cheered the EPIC project.

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