The Asian Age

Bypolls for 3 LS, 12 Assembly seats in April

Polling will be held on April 9, 12, says EC

- AGE CORRESPOND­ENT

New Delhi, March 9: Bypolls to Srinagar and Anantnag LS seats will be held on April 9 and 12, respective­ly, the EC said Thursday while announcing the schedule for byelection­s to 3 Parliament­ary and 12 Assembly state seats. The bypoll in R.K. Nagar, Jayalalith­aa’s seat in TN, and the Malapuram LS seat in Kerala will go to polls on April 12.

The Election Commission on Thursday announced that bypolls to Srinagar and Anantnag Lok Sabha seats in Jammu and Kashmir will be held on April 9 and 12, respective­ly. The EC also announced the schedule for byelection­s to three parliament­ary and 12 Assembly constituen­cies.

The Assembly bypoll in Radhakrish­nan Nagar seat in Tamil Nadu, which fell vacant following the demise of then chief minister J. Jayalalith­aa will be held on April 12, while byelection to Malapuram Lok Sabha seat in Kerala, which fell vacant following the demise of IUML leader E. Ahamed will also be held on April 12.

Among the 12 Assembly seats for which bypolls will be held is Delhi’s Rajouri Garden. It fell vacant after Jarnail Singh of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) decided to contest the Punjab Assembly polls held in February. The byelection for the seat is on April 9. Anantnag seat fell vacant in June 2016 after chief minister Mehbooba Mufti won the Assembly polls and resigned from the Lok Sabha. The Srinagar Lok Sabha seat was vacated by former PDP leader Tariq Hamid Karra, who had resigned in protest against alleged “brutalitie­s” on Kashmir protesters.

The other Assembly seats that will go to polls are Dhemaji in Assam, Bhoranj in Himachal Pradesh, Ater and Bandhavgar­h in Madhya Pradesh, Kanthi Dakshin in West Bengal, Dholpur in Rajasthan, Nanjangud and Gundlupet in Karnataka, Litipara in Jharkhand and Upper Burtuk in Sikkim.

 ?? — PTI ?? Congress leader and senior lawyer P. Chidambara­m at the Himachal Pradesh high court in Shimla on Thursday. He appeared in a disproport­ionate assets case involving state chief minister Virbhadra Singh.
— PTI Congress leader and senior lawyer P. Chidambara­m at the Himachal Pradesh high court in Shimla on Thursday. He appeared in a disproport­ionate assets case involving state chief minister Virbhadra Singh.

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