Assembly By-Elections in 6 States for 7 Seats from 3rd November
Assembly By-Elections : Election Commission of India has announced by-elections in 7 assembly seats in 6 states. The States are Maharashtra, Bihar, Haryana. It includes two assembly seats in Bihar and one assembly seat each in Maharashtra, Telangana, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Odisha.
According to the notification of the Election Commission, the nomination process for all the seven assembly seats will start from Friday 7 October and will continue till next Friday 14 October.
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The nomination can be withdrawn till Monday 17 October. After this, voting will be held on Thursday 3 November, whose counting will be done on Sunday 6 November.
After the announcement of the by-election, the model code of conduct has come into force in all these assembly seats, after which all the political parties and governments in these constituencies will have to follow the instructions of the Election Commission.
By-Elections for Assembly seats
By-elections will be held for the Andheri East assembly seat of Maharashtra. At the same time, by-elections will be held in Mokama assembly and Gopalganj assembly seats of Bihar.
Along with this, notification has been issued by the Election Commission for the by-elections to Adampur in Haryana, Munugode in Telangana, Gola Gokarnath of Uttar Pradesh and Dhamnagar assembly seats in Odisha. In this, the Dhamnagar assembly seat of Odisha is reserved for SC.
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Why By-Elections is on These Seats?
According to the information received, the Adampur assembly seat of Haryana is vacant due to the resignation of Kuldeep Bishnoi. He had won the 2019 assembly elections on a Congress ticket, but recently he resigned from the post of MLA and joined the BJP.
At the same time, the assembly membership of Anant Singh of Mokama assembly of Bihar has been canceled. Due to which by-elections are being held here. Apart from this, these assembly seats are vacant due to different reasons. Due to which notification has been issued for by-elections here.
