The Election Commission of India (ECI) was on Monday scheduled to hold meetings with stakeholders in connection with the ongoing delimitation of constituencies in Assam as part of its three-day visit to Guwahati.
Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar and Election Commissioners Anup Chandra Pandey and Arun Goel, along with senior EC officials, began their visit on Sunday. The EC met Assam Chief Electoral Officer Nitin Khade on Sunday, as per a tweet by the CEO Assam Twitter handle. In another tweet, the CEO office said the EC would be hearing stakeholders on Monday and had also extended the time for suggestions and inputs from the public till April 5.
“The Commission will come again after the draft proposal is published in newspapers, providing stakeholders with two opportunities to interact and make the delimitation process more inclusive, participatory, and transparent,” the CEO tweeted on Sunday.
The EC had started the process of redrawing the boundaries of parliamentary and Assembly constituencies in the state on December 27, 2022, after being asked by the government in November. The delimitation is being carried out in the state for the first time since 1976 and is based on the population as in the 2001 Census.
