The EC’s decision virtually rules out any possibility of clubbing these polls with the Lok Sabha elections due in April-May next year as was being suggested by some political quarters. The Election Commission has decided to go by the law as well as convention to hold assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Mizoram together before mid-December, ahead of expiry of the term of Mizoram assembly.   The BJP’s call for simultaneous polls, outlined in party chief Amit Shah’s letter to the Law Commission, will be more an effortRead More