EC Announces Bypolls to Four LS & 10 Assembly Seats on 28 May

The voting for the fourteen seats will take place on 28 May, while the counting of votes will be done on 31 May. Image used for representational purposes.

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The Election Commission on Thursday, 26 April, issued a notification announcing the bypolls for four parliamentary constituencies, and ten state assembly constituencies.

The voting for the fourteen seats will take place on 28 May, while the counting of votes will be done on 31 May.

The four Lok Sabha seats include Bhandara-Gondiya and Palghar in Maharashtra, Kairana in Uttar Pradesh and one seat in Nagaland.

Nana Patole of the BJP had resigned from the Bhandara-Gondiya seat in 2017 and joined the Congress. The Palghar seat fell vacant after the demise of BJP MP Chintaman Wangaya. The bypoll to the Kairana seat was necessitated after BJP veteran Hukum Singh passed away in February.

The Nagaland seat fell vacant when Neiphiu Rio resigned as a Lok Sabha member to become the chief minister of the state.

The states where bypolls have been scheduled to fill vacancies in the legislative assembly seats are Bihar, Jharkhand Kerala, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.

The notification for the elections would be issued on 3 May, the Election Commission said.