Voting begins for bypolls to 3 Lok Sabha seats, 7 Assembly seats; counting on June 26 | Details
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The voting for bypolls to three Lok Sabha seats and seven Assembly seats is being held today. The counting of votes will be done on June 26. Details here.
The voting for bypolls to three Lok Sabha seats and seven Assembly seats is scheduled across five states and Delhi is being held on Thursday. The bypolls are underway in Delhi, Punjab, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Jharkhand today and the counting of votes will take place on June 26. In May, the Election Commission released the schedule for the bypolls to the parliamentary and assembly constituencies in five states and Delhi.
Here are the states and constituencies where the bypolls are taking place:
The voting is underway for the bypoll to Rajinder Nagar seat in Delhi, which is largely seen as a battle between AAP and BJP for the crucial assembly constituency. A total of 1,64,698 voters are eligible to exercise their franchise in the bye-election, in which 14 candidates are in the fray. AAP has fielded Durgesh Pathak against BJP former councillor Rajesh Bhatia and Congress’s Prem Lata.
Polling underway for bypoll on Delhi’s Rajinder Nagar seat, vacated after AAP’s Raghav Chadha was elected to RS. AAP has fielded Durgesh Pathak against BJP former councillor Rajesh Bhatia and Congress’s Prem Lata.Voting for bypolls to 3 LS seats & 7 assembly seats is underway pic.twitter.com/ISZ0o1DzjQ
Delhi Chief Electoral Officer Ranbir Singh was quoted by PTI as saying that mock polls were held at all polling stations and voting has begun under tight security arrangements. Six companies of CAPF have also been deployed. The bypoll was necessitated in the wake of AAP leader Raghav Chadha leaving the seat after being elected to the Rajya Sabha recently.
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