The Election Commission (EC) will hold a special meeting to discuss the Bukit Gelugor parliamentary seat in Penang this Thursday.

EC secretary Abdul Ghani Salleh said it received notification from the speaker of the Dewan Rakyat at 11am today on the vacant Bukit Gelugor seat following the death of its MP Karpal Singh.

The special meeting to be held at EC headquarters in Putrajaya will be  followed by a press conference by EC chairperson Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof ( left ), he said in a statement today.

Karpal Singh,74, was killed in an accident at 1.10am at Km306.1 of the North-South Expressway near Gua Tempurung in Kampar, Perak.

Also killed in the accident was Karpal's personal assistant Michael Cornelius.

In the 2013 general election, Karpal Singh (DAP) won the seat with a 41,778 vote majority beating Teh Beng Yeam from the Barisan Nasional (BN).

- Bernama