NDA to move EC on Bihar polls

The National Democratic Alliance will on Wednesday move the Election Commission, protesting against what it described as the United Progressive Alliance [ Images ] government's "attempts to interfere" in democratic process.

A delegation led by chief ministerial candidate Nitish Kumar would also demand early polls in the state during a meeting with the Election Commission, NDA sources said.

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Janata Dal-United parliamentary party chairman Sharad Yadav, Bharatiya Janata Party [ Images ] vice president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and BJP general secretary Arun Jaitley [ Images ] would be the other members of the delegation, they said.

The opposition alliance has taken exception to Union Law Minister H R Bhardwaj's statement on Tuesday that the earliest the polls could be held in the state was in September.