Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora will be paying a two-day visit to Jammu & Kashmir from Monday to assess the ground situation in the state for holding the Lok Sabha and Assembly polls together.
A poll panel team led by CEC Arora would also take stock of the State’s preparedness for the Lok Sabha polls due in April-May, sources said.
The Election Commission team would hold meetings with state administration officials and political parties in Srinagar on March 4 and in Jammu on March 5.
As per a Supreme Court ruling, the outer limit for holding fresh polls after dissolution of a House is six months and in case of J&K, this deadline ends in May 2019.