BJP announces candidates for Parliamentary, Assembly bypolls in Punjab, Odisha
The BJP has fielded Sardar Indar Iqbal Singh Atwal for the Jalandhar (SC) bypoll and Tankadhar Tripathy for the Jharsuguda bypoll.
The BJP has fielded Sardar Indar Iqbal Singh Atwal for the Jalandhar (SC) bypoll and Tankadhar Tripathy for the Jharsuguda bypoll.
Kusum Devi managed to receive 70,053 votes after the completion of all 24 rounds of counting, while the RJD candidate secured 68259 votes.
From Rajinder Nagar assembly seat of Delhi, the BJP has fielded its former state unit general secretary Rajesh Bhatia.
The political parties expect the election to take place before the monsoon sets in.
The BJP, which has fielded advocate Priyanka Tibrewal against Trinamul Congress candidate, chief minister Mamata Banerjee, in Bhawanipore, submitted a memorandum to the CEO yesterday urging that Kolkata Police should not be allowed to enter within 200 metres of the booths.
BJP is now the single largest party with 17 MLAs, even though it has lost the Panaji seat, held for long by late chief minister Manohar Parrikar, to the Congress
The four Lok Sabha constituencies going to bypolls are Kairana in Uttar Pradesh, Bhandara-Gondiya and Palghar in Maharashtra, and the lone Parliamentary seat in Nagaland. Assembly bypolls are taking place in Maharashtra, UP, Bihar, Jharkhand, Kerala, Meghalaya, Punjab, Uttarakhand and West Bengal.
Congress president Rahul Gandhi said on Thursday that the party’s victory in two constituencies in Assembly bypolls in the BJP-ruled…