New Delhi, Oct 6 (IANS) Bypolls to five Assembly constituencies in three states and the Union territory of Puducherry and one Parliamentary seat in Assam will be held on Tuesday, and the results will be declared on October 9.
Polling will take place in four Assembly constituencies — Nandigram and Rejinagar in West Bengal, Madurantakam and Dharapuram in Tamil Nadu — besides Thattanchavady in Puducherry and the Nagaon Lok Sabha constituency in Assam.
Assam’s Nagaon Parliamentary constituency fell vacant due to the resignation of Pradyut Bordoloi, a statement issued by the ECI said.
In West Bengal, bye-elections will be held in Nandigram Assembly seat due to the resignation of the current Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, and Rejinagar seat, which had fallen vacant after the resignation of Aam Janata Unnayan Party Chief Humayun Kabir.
Earlier on Sunday, Chief Minister Adhikari took out a foot march in Nandigram for BJP candidate Hasirani Rath, mother of Chandranath Rath, a former aide of Adhikari who was killed shortly after the Assembly election victory.
In Tamil Nadu, by-elections in the Assembly will be held in Madurantakam and Dharapuram. By-elections will also be held in Puducherry’s Thattanchavady constituency.
According to the schedule issued by the ECI, the gazette notification for the by-elections will be issued on September 9.
The ECI earlier said that it has decided to use EVMs and VVPATs in the by-election in all the polling stations.
Adequate numbers of EVMs and VVPATs have been made available, and all steps have been taken to ensure that the poll is conducted smoothly with the help of these machines, the statement said.
According to the Commission, the process of updating electoral rolls in the four states continued till the last date of filing nominations
The ECI earlier said that candidates with criminal antecedents were required to publish information in this regard in newspapers and through television channels on three occasions during the poll campaign period.
A political party that sets up candidates with criminal antecedents was also required to publish information about the criminal background of its candidates, both on its website and in newspapers and television channels on three occasions, the ECI said in a statement.
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