It’s back to square one for the Office of Chief Electoral Officer (OCEO). Just when it had almost prepared the ground for elections in April-May, the Union Cabinet on Thursday decided to implement the new delimitation.
Now, OCEO has to start from the beginning all over again, to re-draw the new boundaries for assembly constituencies.

The process, official sources said, needs a minimum six months’ time. Nobody in the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer (OSEO), actually has any knowledge or experience of re-drawing the boundaries and re-set the present voters’ list.

For, it was in 1976 the delimitation was implemented last in the State, official sources in OSEO said.
“We have drawn up a rough calender for delimitation process. It requires six to eight months’ time to implement. It is not only a tough task but time-consuming also,” OSEO officials said.
This, in other words, means elections to the State Assembly will not be held before September 2008.