A total of 239 candidates will contest 23 vacant seats in both national and provincial assemblies in the upcoming bye-elections on April 21, ARY News reported, citing an official of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Sunday.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) released names of leaders who will campaign for Lok Sabha Election 2024 in the State of Tripura (Schedule-1A) and bye-elections to the 7-Ramnagar Legislative Assembly Constituency.
In view of the upcoming Lok Sabha Election 2024 and the bye-elections in Himachal Pradesh, the state director general of police has deputed 14 police officers as nodal officers to deal with election related complaints in their respective districts till the completion of the election process,
The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) won four Senate seats while the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) secured wins in one seat each in the bye-elections held on Thursday, Pakistan-based The News International reported.
"The Ghazipur Parliamentary Constituency shall not be notified for bye-election, in terms of Section 151 of the RPA, till the decision of the Appellant's criminal appeal by the High Court," the court said.
The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee on Wednesday handed its party ticket to Wanglem Konyak from Tangnyu Village, Mon Nagaland representing the 43 Tapi Assembly Constituency for the bye- election scheduled on November 7. A ticket distribution program was also held at the Congress Bhavan
The bypoll in Ghosi was necessitated after Dara Singh Chauhan, who had won the seat in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls as Samajwadi Party candidate, came back to the BJP. The Samajwadi Party candidate Sudhakar Singh won by a big margin of 42,759 votes.
The bypoll results are seen as a test for the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) bloc against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led NDA ahead of the five state assembly elections scheduled later this year and the crucial Lok Sabha polls in 2024.
The voting for the bye-elections to the other six assembly constituencies of several states, including Uttarakhand, Kerala, Tripura, West Bengal, and Jharkhand, started on Tuesday at 7 am.
Chandy Oommen, a Congress candidate from Puthupally Assembly constituency, where voting for the bye-election is underway, cast his vote on Tuesday morning.