Kamlesh Thakur, wife of Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu and Congress candidate filed her nomination for the Dehra assembly by-poll on Friday.
"The Congress President, Shri Mallikarjun Kharge, has approved the candidature of Smt. Surinder Kaur as Congress candidate for the ensuing bye-election to the Legislative Assembly of Punjab from 34- Jalandhar West - SC Constituency," the press release from the All India Congress Committee re
Kailash Vijayvargiya, Minister of Parliamentary Affairs of Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday took a jibe at the Congress party and said Priyanka Gandhi Vadra contesting from Kerala's Wayanad was "the biggest example of parivarwad."
After the Congress party announced Priyanka Gandhi's candidature from Wayanad for Lok Sabha by-poll, Communist Party of India (CPI) leader Annie Raja, who contested the seat earlier against Rahul Gandhi, said that the decision on her candidature will be with the party.
The bye-election in the seat was necessitated after Rahul Gandhi decided to retain Uttar Pradesh's Raebareli seat, which he won along with Wayanad in the recently held Lok Sabha elections.
"The Central Election Committee of the Bharatiya Janata Party has given its approval to the following names for the upcoming assembly by-elections to be held in the states of Punjab and West Bengal," a press release from the central office of the BJP said.
Following All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK)'s decision to boycott Vikravandi assembly constituency by-polls, which are scheduled for July 10, party leader D Jayakumar on Monday said that contesting by-polls is a "waste of resources".