With the commencement of polling on the Hamirpur, Nalagarh, and Dehra assembly segments in Himachal Pradesh, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Dehra, Hoshiyar Singh, arrived on the booth in the Dehra constituency to cast his vote.
Polling for the Assembly by-polls has started for 13 Assembly constituencies across seven states: Bihar, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, and Himachal Pradesh on Wednesday.
Mock polls are underway for polling at four Assembly seats in West Bengal. The voting process for the by polls will begin at 7 am and continue till 6 pm.
Ahead of the assembly by-polls on two seats of Uttarakhand, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami addressed a rally in support of the BJP's Badrinath candidate Rajendra Bhandari and said Congress has become directionless and far away from development which is the reason why Rajendra Bhandari jo
Amid the on-going quest for by-elections, Himachal CM's wife and Congress candidate Kamlesh Thakur from Dehra has been aggressively campaigning as she held nine street meetings and interacted with the public on Monday.
The Election Department of Himachal Pradesh on Monday announced that a total of 15 candidates, including Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu's wife Kamlesh Thakur, are in the fray for the by-polls to be held in three segments -- Dehra, Hamirpur and Nalagarh.
"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
"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.