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EC reschedules Vizag bypoll to April 24

J. Venkatesan

NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Thursday rescheduled the Visakhapatnam Assembly byelection to April 24 under strict security arrangements. The commission had earlier decided to hold the poll to that constituency on March 25. Commission sources said that a decision to change polling date was taken considering the school examination. The State Government had also sought a change in the schedule.

The commission had countermanded the byelection stating "the commission is fully convinced and totally satisfied that the poll taken on February 19 in 24-Visakhapatnam Assembly constituency was vitiated because of large- scale distribution of money, liquor and other commodities and breach of Model Code of Conduct by several parties and their workers/supporters to woo voters to vote in favour of their candidates in a large number of polling areas in the entire Assembly constituency and that it has certainly affected the fairness of the election in the whole of the said constituency."

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