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PIL seeking deferment of Bihar poll dismissed

New Delhi, August 28

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a PIL seeking to defer the Bihar Assembly poll due to Covid-19, saying the pandemic can't be a ground for postponing elections.

"How can we ask the Election Commission of India to not hold elections? Covid cannot be a valid ground for postponement of elections," a Bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan told petitioner Avinash Thakur.

The Election Commission would consider everything, it said, terming the petition "premature" as notification for the Assembly poll was yet to be issued.

Thakur had sought a direction to the Chief Election Commissioner to postpone the elections due to the pandemic on the ground that the Representation of the People Act provides for the deferment of poll in extraordinary situations. — TNS



Source:- The Tribune https://ift.tt/2YLSOwD
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