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Bengal RS bypolls: BJP may field three former TMC MPs

The Election Commission of India’s recent announcement of by-elections to three Rajya Sabha seats from West Bengal, which fell vacant following the resignations of Sukhendu Sekhar Ray, Sushmita Dev and Prakash Chik Baraik — the three Trinamool Congress MPs who stepped down after the party’s debacle in the recent West Bengal Assembly elections — has brought the focus back on the former MPs and the BJP’s plans for them.

ECI issues guidelines for smooth elections in Phase I

The Election Commission of India today in a directive asked the law enforcing agencies responsible for manning the polling booths for the upcoming polls on 23 and 29 April to arrest the alleged “fake” voters found to have been indulging in electoral malpractices in the form of “false” voting.