Bye-polls to three Lok Sabha, 30 Assembly seats to take place on October 30

The Election Commission on Tuesday said that bye-polls to three Lok Sabha seats and 30 Assembly constituencies across India will be held on October 30. The votes will be counted on November 2.

The commission will issue a notification on October 1, marking the beginning of the nomination process. The last date for filing of nominations is October 8. The nominations will be scrutinised three days later.

There is one Lok Sabha vacancy from the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. One seat each is vacant from Madhya Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh.

The 30 Assembly seats going for bye-polls are in Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Rajasthan, Telangana and West Bengal.

In Andhra Pradesh, the Huzurabad Assembly seat was vacated after the state’s former health minister Eatala Rajender was dismissed by Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on charges of “land grabbing”, The Hindu reported.

Rajender later joined the Bharatiya Janata Party and is likely to be its candidate for bye-elections.

The Ellenabad seat in Haryana’s Sirsa district has been vacant since January after Indian National Lok Dal leader Abhay Singh Chautala quit the party to support the farmers protest against the Centre’s three agricultural laws, The Tribune reported.

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