Voting for seven assembly seats in six states is to be held on November 3, as per the schedule announced by the government. Election commission India on Monday. Counting of votes will take place on November 6.
Bypolls will be held in Andheri East in Maharashtra, Mokama and Gopalganj in Bihar, Adampur in Haryana, Munugode in Telangana, Gola Gokarnath in Uttar Pradesh and Dhamnagar in Odisha.
Gazette notification will be issued on 6th October. The last date for filing nominations is October 14 and candidates can withdraw their candidature till October 17.
In Bihar, bypolls were held in Bihar after RJD’s Mokama MLA Anant Kumar Singh was disqualified in a case in July, while BJP’s Subhash Singh, who represents Gopalganj constituency, died in August. went.
Vacancies were created in Andheri East, Gola Gokarnath and Dhamnagar constituencies after the death of their respective MLAs. Former Andheri MLA Ramesh Latte of Shiv Sena, BJP MLA Arvind Giri (Gola Gokarnath) and Vishnu Sethi (Dhamnagar) passed away this year.
The resignations of Kuldeep Bishnoi as Congress MLA from Adampur and K Rajagopal Reddy as Munugode MLA created vacancies in their constituencies. Bishnoi was expelled by the Congress for defying its whip and voted for Karthikeya Sharma, a BJP-backed candidate in the Rajya Sabha election. In August, he joined the BJP.
The Election Commission has decided to use EVMs and VVPATs in by-elections at all polling stations.
In view of COVID-19, the Commission said that the district machinery should effectively monitor the COVID situation and enforce the appropriate treatment of COVID by laying down requisite legal/administrative norms.
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