New Delhi: The Election Commission on Tuesday, said that it will shortly decide on the schedule for bye-elections to seven Lok Sabha seats rendered vacant by the eviction of MPs.
The MPs were expelled in the cash-for-query scam.
But the EC chose to be tight lipped about the dates for the assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh.
"In respect of three Lok Sabha vacancies in Uttar Pradesh, they will be held along with the assembly polls. Rest of them, we will take a decision soon," Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswamy was quoted by news agency PTI as saying.
Gopalaswamy added that the Commission has got six months time from the date of the apex court's verdict to conduct elections in the ten Lok Sabha seats.
Meanwhile of the seven Lok Sabha vacancies that are there is states other than UP.
The apex court on January 10 had upheld Parliament's right to expel members for misconduct in the context of the cash-for-query scam of 2005.
On the assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, Gopalaswamy said that a new assembly has to be constituted by May 14.
When asked whether the poll schedule for UP would be announced before the completion of assembly poll process in Manipur, Punjab and Uttarakhand, the CEC said, “You can do your calculations.”
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