Election Commission Announces Bypoll Date For 13 Assembly Seats In Seven States: Full Schedule

The Election Commission of India in the present day introduced the dates for holding meeting by-elections for 13 seats unfold throughout seven states. As per the Election Commission of India, the by-polls will likely be held on July 10 in the entire seven seats. This comes after a number of seats have been vacated by the sitting MLAs to contest the just lately concluded Lok Sabha Elections 2024.

Assembly Bypolls Full Schedule

The notification for the polls could be issued on Jun 14, the final date for submitting of nominations could be June 21 whereas the scrutiny of nominations will happen on June 26. The final day for withdrawal of candidature could be June 26. The voting will likely be held on July 10 whereas the counting of votes will happen on July 13.  

Bypoll Seats And Reason

The 13 seats are Rupauli in Bihar, Raiganjm Ranaghat Dakshin, Bagda and Maniktala in West Bengal, Vikravandi in Tamil Nadu, Amarwara in Madhya Pradesh, (*13*) and Manglaur in Uttarakhand, Jalandhar West in Punjab and Dehra, Hamirpur and Nalagarh in Himachal Pradesh.

From Rupauli, JDU MLA Bima Bharti had resigned after she joined the RJD to contest the Lok Sabha polls from Purnia.  

In Raiganj, MLA Krishna Kalyani resigned to contest the Lok Sabha polls on the TMC ticket. Similarly, Mukut Mani Adhikari resigned from the Ranaghat Dakshin seat, Biswajit Das from the Bagda seat and the by-polls on the Maniktala seat have been necessitated following the loss of life of MLA Sadhan Pandey. Mukut Mani Adhikari had give up the BJP to hitch TMC forward of the Lok Sabha polls. Biswajit Das contested the polls from the Bangaon Lok Sabha seat however misplaced. All three leaders misplaced the Lok Sabha polls.

In Tamil Nadu’s Vikravandi, the bypolls will likely be held because of the loss of life of the sitting MLA of Thiru. N. Pugazhenthi. In Madhya Pradesh’s Amarwara, the bypoll is being held because of the resignation of MLA Kamlesh Pratap Shah, who give up Congress to hitch the BJP.

In (*13*), the elections will likely be held because of the resignation of MLA Rajendra Singh Bhandari, who joined BJP after leaving Congress. In Manglaur, the bypolls will likely be held because of the demise of MLA Sarwat Karim Ansari. 

In Punjab, bypolls will likely be held for the Jalandhar West seat because of the resignation of MLA Sheetal Angural. He had resigned from AAP to hitch the BJP however later tried to withdraw his resignation. However, the Speaker accepted his resignation. 

In Himachal Pradesh, the bypolls will likely be held within the Dehra seat because of the resignation of MLA Hoshyar Singh, in Hamirpur because of the resignation of MLA Ashish Sharma and in Nalagarh because of the resignation of MLA KL Thakur.