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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 Electing the President and Vice President
12. ECI, State Election 2020 to the Legislative Assembly of 1. Lok Sabha Secretariat, Constituent Assembly Debates,
Bihar, Highlights Book V (Comprising Volumes X to XII)
13. ECI, Electors Summary Data, Annexure-1 (Bihar LA 2. Election Commission of India, Election to the Office of
elections, 2020) President of India, 2022 (2022)
3. Election Commission of India, Press Note: Election to
14. Press Note: Schedule for bye-elections to fill casual
the Office of President of India, 2022, dated June 9, 2022
vacancy in the Parliamentary Constituency of Bihar and
Legislative Assemblies in various stated dated September 4. Election Commission of India, The Presidential and
29, 2020 Vice Presidential Election Act, 1952 (Act No.31 of 1951)
and The Presidential and Vice Presidential Elections
15. Vide Reply to Lok Sabha Unstarrred Question No.2014
dtd February 12, 2021 Rules, 1974 (2022)
5. Lok Sabha Secretariat, Electing the President and the
16. Announcement of General Election to the Legislative
Vice President (2022)
Assemblies of Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal
and Puducherry dated February 26, 2021 6. Lok Sabha Secretariat, Electing the President and the
Vice President (2017)
17. Press Note: ECI/PN/66/2021 dated May 13, 2021 (ECI
push for wide ranging reforms) 7. Various Gazette Notifications
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