Uttar Pradesh’s Mainpuri Lok Sabha, 4 Assembly seats will also go to the mid-term elections
Team News Riveting
New Delhi, November 5
The mid-term polls in Chhattisgarh’s Bhanupratappur assembly constituency along with Mainpuri parliamentary and four assembly seats will be held on December 5.
The Election Commission of India today announced the schedule to hold the bye-election to fill vacancies in the Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies of Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan, Bihar and Chhattisgarh.
The by-election in Bhanupratappur has been necessitated following the death of Manoj Singh Mandavi, who passed away on October 16, 2022. He represented the Congress party.
Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat will also go to the mid-term elections as the seat felt vacant following the death of Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav. Yadav had passed away last month following prolonged illness.
The bypoll will also be held in Rampur Assembly seat in Uttar Pradesh as SP leader Mohammad Azam Khan has been disqualified. Khan was disqualified by the Speaker after he was convicted and sentenced to three-year imprisonment in a case of hate speech registered against him in April 2019.
The polling in the lone parliamentary and five assembly constituencies will be held on December 5, the poll panel said on Saturday. The counting of votes will take place on December 8 that will coincide with the Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh ballot count.
The other assembly constituencies include Padampur in Odisha, Sardarshahar in Rajasthan and Kurhani in Bihar.
