GG News Bureau
Jaipur, 15th Oct. Voting for bypolls on seven assembly seats in Rajasthan is set for November 13, with results to be declared on November 23, as announced by the Election Commission of India.
At a press conference in New Delhi on Tuesday, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar detailed the schedule for bypolls across 48 assembly constituencies and two parliamentary constituencies in 15 states.
In Rajasthan, the bypolls will take place in Jhunjhunu, Dausa, Deoli-Uniara, Khinvsar, Chaurasi, Salumbar, and Ramgarh assembly seats. Notably, four of these seats were previously held by the Congress party. Two by-elections are necessitated by the deaths of Congress MLA Zubair Khan from Ramgarh and BJP MLA Amritlal Meena from Salumbar.
The other five bypolls are due to the election of MLAs to Lok Sabha seats: Congress MLAs Brijendra Ola (Jhunjhunu) and Harish Chandra Meena (Dausa), Rashtriya Loktantrik Party MLA Hanuman Beniwal (Khinvsar), and Rajkumar Roat of the Bharat Adivasi Party (Chaurasi).
Currently, the Rajasthan Assembly consists of 200 seats, with the BJP holding 114, Congress 65, three from the Bharat Adivasi Party, two from the Bahujan Samaj Party, one from the Rashtriya Lok Dal, and eight Independents.
The upcoming bypolls will cover 1,862 polling stations and involve approximately 1,936,532 voters. Following the announcement, Congress state president Govind Dotasra claimed the BJP “will get zero seats in the bypolls,” criticizing the state government’s performance and stating that “the government has become a circus.”
Additionally, the Election Commission announced that assembly polls in Maharashtra will occur in a single phase on November 20, while Jharkhand will hold elections in two phases on November 13 and 20, with vote counting scheduled for November 23.
