Congress CEC likely to decide on Bihar poll candidates on October 8 | India News – The Times of India
NEW DELHI: Indian National Congress’ Central Election Committee (CEC) it set to meet on October 8 (Wednesday) to decide on the candidates for the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections. The assembly, chaired by Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, will likely be held just about with numerous CEC members and senior leaders of the get together set to attend. Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi will likely be becoming a member of on-line too whereas on a go to to the South American international locations. Other members of the CEC, Including Sonia Gandhi, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhary, KC Venugopal, Amee Yajnik, Uttam Kumar Reddy, TS Singh Deo and others. The Congress is in alliance with the Rashtriya janata dal (RJD) and different left events together with CPI, CPI (ML) within the state. The alliance is ready to give a contest to the National Democratic Allianceconsisting of BJPJD(U), LJP (RV) HAMS, and others. While the get together has not introduced any seat sharing association with its alliance companions, they’ve just lately concluded its Voter Adhikar Yatra, which lined numerous districts within the state, led by Rahul Gandhi and RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav.Earlier, former Uttarakhand chief minister and senior Congress chief Harish Rawat mentioned that Bihar is ready to present the trail of change to all the nation within the upcoming meeting polls.The Election Commission has introduced the schedule for the Bihar Assembly elections. The 243 Assembly seats will go to the polls in two phases on November 6 and November 11, with counting of votes to be held on November 14.The whole quantity of electors within the last listing stands at 7.42 crore, whereas there have been 7.89 crore electors as of June 24 this yr. An Election Commission press launch acknowledged that 65 lakh voters had been faraway from the draft listing, and the quantity of electors within the draft listing as of August 1, 2025, stood at 7.24 crore.
