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Live Updates | Bihar Election Schedule Announcement Today; ECI Press Conference To Begin At 4 PM
The Election Commission of India will announce the schedule for Bihar assembly polls on Monday. The announcement will take place during a press conference in the national capital at 4 pm.The tenure of the 243-member Bihar Assembly is scheduled to end on November 22. Political parties have urged the EC to hold the polls immediately after the Chhath festival, which will be celebrated at the end of October, to ensure greater voter participation as a large number of people employed outside return home for festivities. While the ruling NDA has asked for a singh-phase election, the opposition wants the polls to be completed in two phases. The 2020 assembly polls in the