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EC may send team to Gujarat
to study situation

The Election Commission may soon send a team to Gujarat to find out if the situation in the state is conducive for holding elections.

This follows, EC sources said, the divergent views expressed by political parties on holding elections in the state.

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi dissolved the state assembly on July 19, nine months ahead of the expiry of its term, and requested the Election Commission to hold early elections in the state.

Gujarat was witness to an orgy of communal violence after a bogie full of kar sevaks returning from Ayodhya was set afire at the Godhra railway station on February 27. Over 50 people, mostly women and children, died in the attack.

The riots that followed left over 900 dead, most of them Muslims.

While political parties on one side of the political divide believe that the elections would provide the state the healing touch it so badly needs, those on the other side see it as the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party's attempt to use the communal polarisation to ride back to power.

PTI

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