Assembly bypolls: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday introduced its candidates for the upcoming Assembly by-elections in Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, and West Bengal. The half has given tickets to all six disqualified MLAs, who had beforehand left the Congress to be a part of the BJP, to contest in the Himachal Pradesh meeting by-elections.
Assembly bypolls
By-elections to 26 Assembly seats throughout 13 States, together with six constituencies in Himachal Pradesh the place Congress MLAs have been disqualified for riot, can be held together with the Lok Sabha elections starting April 19.
“There are 26 Assembly constituencies where by-elections are due. These are in Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Telangana, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu,” Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar mentioned at a press convention in News Delhi on March 16.