Elections: By-polls should be banned in India

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Rs 10,000 crore is going to be spent on General Elections 2009. For every election there is a ‘side effect’ in India – bypoll I wrote a small piece on Oneindia.in about by-polls,

Bypolls in India should be banned. A By-poll (occasionally also spelled ‘bye-election’, and known in the United States as a special election) is an election held to fill a political office that has become vacant between regularly scheduled elections…More..