MLC polls to be held on March 20

The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Saturday slightly modified the schedule for the conduct of elections to fill 10 seats of Legislative Councils in Telangana State and Andhra Pradesh. MLAs will elect the candidates to fill the vacancies. The polling to fill 7 MLC seats in AP and 3 in TS will now be held on March 20 instead of March 17 as announced earlier.

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notification for elections for these 10 seats will be issued on February 28 and the last date to submit the nominations will be March 7. The nominations will be scrutinised on March 8. The last date for withdrawal of candidature will be  March 10. Polling will be held on 20th March and the counting of votes will take place on the same day.