Two assembly by-polls a litmus test for Dhami Govt in Uttarakhand
Being held without PM in the forefront, the result of the by-elections to the Bardinath and Manglaur constituencies will reflect the performance of governance of the ruling BJP.
Being held without PM in the forefront, the result of the by-elections to the Bardinath and Manglaur constituencies will reflect the performance of governance of the ruling BJP.
These elections were necessitated after the State Legislative Assembly Speaker Kuldeep Singh Pathania accepted the resignation of the three independent MLAs, K L Thakur of Nalagarh, Hoshyar Singh of Dehra, and Ashish Sharma of Hamirpur on June 3.
PM Modi urged people to come out and vote in large numbers as voting for`byelections in Punjab , UP, Odisha and Meghalaya commenced.
The BJP won a spectacular victory in Gujarat and is the only party other than the Communist Party of India (Marxist) to have won seven straight Assembly elections in a state.
Samajwadi Party candidate Dimple Yadav is leading in Mainpuri with a comfortable lead of over one lakh votes.
The SP chief, while addressing Ex-Servicemen Conference in poll-bound Mainpuri asserted that no one was given a job after the recruitment rally under the scheme in Uttar Pradesh's Farrukhabad.
40-star campaigners will comprise of Rajnath Singh, CM Yogi Adityanath, Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brijesh Pathak.
The Assembly seats are Padampur (Odisha), Sardarshahar (Rajasthan), Kurhani (Bihar), Bhanupratappur (Chhattisgarh) and Rampur (Uttar Pradesh). The Parliamentary seat is Mainpuri (Uttar Pradesh).
By-elections will be held from 7 am to 6 pm amid tight security and the counting of votes will be conducted on November 6.
The swearing-in ceremony of the newly elected Trinamool Congress legislator from the Ballygunge Assembly constituency and the singer-turned politician, Babul Supriyo has become a new tussle factor between the Governor House and the state Assembly.
