tna May 24, 2005
| The Election Commission today said it would meet this week to decide dates for a fresh election to the Bihar assembly, after the Union Cabinet, in a late night meeting decided to dissolve the assembly and faxed a letter to this effect to Russia where President APJ Abdul Kalam accepted the recommendation. |
| Already in suspended animation, the decision was taken in something of a hurry following rumours that the BJP-JD(U) combine might be readying itself to cobble up the numbers required to form a government. |
| The BJP and its allies, secretly not unhappy at the move (see Snap polls may help NDA), announced a Bihar bandh for May 24. An election must be held within six months failing which President |
