Voting will be held on November 13 for by-elections on 47 assembly seats in 13 states. Today is the last day to file nominations. Elections are to be held on 2 seats in Madhya Pradesh. The most important is Budhni seat. This has been the traditional seat of Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan. BJP candidate Ramakant Bhargava filed nomination on Friday. By-elections will be held on 7 seats in Rajasthan. There is a direct contest between BJP and Congress on four of these seats. There are three seats on which there will be a triangular contest. By-elections are to be held on 4 seats in Bihar – Belagnj, Imamganj, Tarari and Ramgarh. No seat is being spared from nepotism. Vishwanath Singh Yadav, son of RJD MP Surendra Yadav, has got the ticket in Belagnj. Deepa Manjhi, daughter-in-law of HAM Party supremo and former Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, has been made the candidate in Imamganj. By-elections will be held on maximum 9 seats of Uttar Pradesh, 7 of Rajasthan, 6 of West Bengal, 5 of Assam, 4 each of Bihar and Punjab, 3 of Karnataka, 2 each of Kerala, Madhya Pradesh and Sikkim, 1 each of Gujarat, Uttarakhand, Meghalaya and Chhattisgarh. Voting will be held on Kedarnath assembly seat of Uttarakhand on 20th November. Results of all will be declared on 23rd November. Equation of assembly by-elections in states BJP fielded 5 candidates whereas SP fielded 3 backwards, tickets distributed on the basis of caste and religion in UP by-election NDA and SP have announced candidates on all 9 seats for UP by-election. Both the parties may often accuse each other of casteism among the public, but caste was kept as the first eligibility for selection of candidate. Tickets were distributed on the basis of caste on all seats, not only for the by-election, but also for the equation till assembly elections 2027. BJP has fielded candidates on 8 seats. NDA ally Rashtriya Lok Dal will contest from Meerapur. NDA has fielded 5 backward, 2 Brahmin, 1 Dalit, 1 Thakur candidates. In the backward class, one Maurya, 1 Kurmi, 1 Pal, 1 Nishad and 1 Yadav community worker have been given a chance. Read full news… Dissatisfaction on one seat in Rajasthan, direct contest between Congress-BJP on 4 seats Assembly by-elections are being held on 7 seats in Rajasthan. There is a direct contest between Congress-BJP on 4 seats while there is a triangular contest on 3 seats. BJP and Congress candidates filed their nominations on Friday. Meanwhile, Mukesh Meena, nephew of Congress leader and former MP Raghuveer Singh Meena, who was dissatisfied after giving ticket to Reshma Meena from Congress in Salumbhar, has withdrawn his decision to contest the election as an independent. Read full news… By-elections on 2 seats in Madhya Pradesh, dissatisfaction in BJP on Shivraj’s traditional Budhni seat By-elections are being held on 2 seats in Madhya Pradesh. There is dissatisfaction among BJP leaders on Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s traditional Budhni assembly seat. Rajendra Singh Rajput, the then MLA who resigned from the assembly membership for Shivraj Singh Chauhan in 2005, is angry over giving ticket to Ramakant Bhargava here in the 2024 by-election. Read full news… By-elections on 4 seats in Bihar, only family members of leaders get tickets
By-elections are in 4 seats in Bihar – Belagnj, Imamganj, Tarari and Ramgarh. No seat is being spared from nepotism. Vishwanath Singh Yadav, son of RJD MP Surendra Yadav, has got the ticket in Belagnj. Deepa Manjhi, daughter-in-law of HAM Party supremo and former Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, has been made the candidate in Imamganj. Vishal Prashant, son of former MLA and recently joined BJP Sunil Kumar Singh, is the candidate in Tarari. RJD has made Ajit Singh the candidate in Ramgarh. He is in the fray to save the stronghold of brother Sudhakar Singh and father Jagdanand Singh. Read full news… By-election on 4 seats in Punjab, 6 turncoats among 12 candidates of AAP-Congress-BJP, 3 MPs’ wife-son in the fray
In the by-election to be held on 4 assembly seats of Punjab, the parties showed more trust in nepotism and turncoats while distributing tickets. The 12 candidates fielded by Congress, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and BJP include 6 turncoats, 2 MPs’ wives and 1 MP’s son. All four BJP candidates have come from other parties. Read full news… By-election on Raipur South seat in Chhattisgarh, BJP candidate will file nomination today Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Sunil Soni filed nomination today for Raipur South assembly by-election. Chief Minister Vishnu Dev Sai also participated in the nomination rally. Apart from this, MLAs from all 7 assembly constituencies of Raipur also participated in this nomination rally. Read full news… Chances of a four-cornered contest in Bengal, no alliance between Congress and Left Front
By-elections are being held for 6 assembly seats in West Bengal. The ruling Trinamool Congress and BJP have announced their candidates. The announcement of candidates by the Left Front has made it clear that it will not have an alliance with the Congress in this election. Due to this, a four-cornered contest will be seen this time. It is known that the Congress and the Left parties had fought many elections together, including the last assembly and Lok Sabha. In Karnataka, NDA gave tickets to Kumaraswamy and Bommai’s son
The NDA alliance has made Nikhil, son of Union Minister Kumaraswamy, its candidate for the by-election to be held on the Channapatna assembly seat of Karnataka. This seat has fallen vacant after his father and Union Minister HD Kumaraswamy won the Lok Sabha elections. At the same time, Bharat Bommai has been given a ticket from Shiggaon seat. He is the son of former CM Basavaraj Bommai. Congress has made CP Yogeshwar, who left the BJP, as its candidate for the by-election on the Channapatna and Bellary MP E. Tukaram’s wife E. Annapurna for the Sandur assembly seat. Swarupdas BJP candidate from Vav seat in Gujarat BJP has today declared Swarupji Saradarji Thakor as its candidate from Vav seat in Gujarat. This seat has fallen vacant after Ginni Ben Thakor became an MP. Read this news related to the election too…
Last meeting of seat sharing in Maharashtra Mahavikas Aghadi today: Congress has announced 48 names, NCP Sharad 45 and Shiv Sena Uddhav 65 names
The last meeting of seat sharing of Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) will be held in Mumbai today. On Wednesday, Congress state president Nana Patole and Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut had said in a press conference – the three parties have reached a consensus on 85-85 seats. 18 seats were said to be given to other parties of I.N.D.I.A block including Samajwadi Party, SWP and CPI(M). Read full news…
