New Delhi: The Election Commission is understood to have decided to hold elections on October 8 to the Lolab Assembly constituency, from where Jammu and Kashmir minister Mushtaq Ahmed Lone, who was a candidate, was killed in a terrorist attack on September 11.

EC sources said election to that constituency is likely to be held along with other constituencies going to polls in the fourth phase of polling.

The election to Lolab was countermanded on September 11 with the death of Lone, who was seeking re-election from the constituency.

Lone, a minister in the Farooq Abdullah ministry, was killed by militants in a grenade attack and gunfire at an election rally in Kupwara district.

According to earlier schedule, Lolab was to go to polls on September 16, the first phase of the four-phased Assembly polls in the state.

PTI