The meeting by-elections can be held in Dharamshala, Sujanpur, Lahaul and Spiti, Barsar, Gagret, and Kutlehar constituencies.
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The bypolls for the six seats can be held together with polling on 4 LS seats in the final section. As per the election schedule for Himachal Pradesh, the notification could be issued on May 7 and the final date of submitting of nomination is May 14
Bypolls can be held in six Himachal Pradesh meeting seats, which fell vacant after disqualification of insurgent Congress MLAs, on June 1, Chief Electoral Officer Maneesh Garg stated on Saturday.
The meeting by-elections can be held in Dharamshala, Sujanpur, Lahaul and Spiti, Barsar, Gagret, and Kutlehar constituencies.
These seats had develop into vacant after the six insurgent Congress MLAs who had abstained from voting on lower movement and finance invoice (Budget) in the meeting have been disqualified for defying a celebration whip to be current in Vidhan Sabha and vote in favour of the federal government.
As many as 56,38,422 voters 28,79,200 male, 27,59,187 feminine, and 35 third gender individuals would train their franchise for 4 Lok Sabha seats of Hamirpur, Kangra, Mandi, and Shimla (SC) seats in the seventh and final section of polling, Garg stated.
The bypolls for the six seats can be held together with polling on 4 LS seats in the final section. As per the election schedule for Himachal Pradesh, the notification could be issued on May 7 and the final date of submitting of nomination is May 14.
May 15 has been set because the date for the nominations’ scrutiny, whereas the final date of withdrawal of nominations is May 16. There are 7,990 polling stations in the state, of which 425 are thought-about ”essential”. The state has the very best polling station in the nation, positioned at 15,256 toes in Tashigang of Lahaul and Spiti.
Manola polling station in Dalhousie of Chamba district boasts the utmost variety of voters at 1,410, whereas the bottom, 16, are registered at Ka polling station in KInnaur district. Polling groups would cross a distance of 5.5 km on boat to succeed in Sat Kuthera polling station in Fatehpur. Some others could be air dropped in the distant Bara Bangal space of Baijnath. Both locations are in Kangra district.
