Bypolls in Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka on November 3; Check all details

New Delhi: Voting for by-elections to 28 Assembly seats in Madhya Pradesh will probably be held from 7 am to six pm on Tuesday whereas adhering to the COVID-19 restrictions. The day will even witness bypolls in Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka additionally. As many as 88 candidates will face the electoral test within the bypolls to seven UP meeting constituencies whereas two meeting seats in Karnataka will even see by-elections.

Of the seven seats going to the bypolls in Uttar Pradesh, six had been held by the BJP and one by the Samajwadi Party.
 
A complete of 355 candidates, together with 12 ministers, are within the fray for bypolls to 28 seats in Madhya Pradesh, the place round 33,000 safety personnel have been deployed in 19 districts for peaceable bypolls. The state administration has reportedly made all preparations to carry free and truthful polls.

According to reviews, 250 flying squads, 173 static surveillance groups, and 293 police check-posts have been pressed into service in 28 Assembly constituencies, the place a complete of 63.67 lakh voters will forged their votes. As many as 9,361 cubicles have been arrange for individuals to train their franchise and out of those, 3,038 are positioned beneath the ‘important’ class.

In a lot of the seats, there’s a direct combat between the BJP and Congress, whereas in two or three seats of Gwalior Chambal area, a triangular contest is on the playing cards within the wake of the BSP’s presence there, in response to political observers.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Union minister Narendra Singh Tomar, BJP Rajya Sabha member Jyotiraditya Scindia, state BJP chief V D Sharma, former state CM Uma Bharti, amongst others, campaigned to drum up assist for his or her social gathering nominees.

MP Congress president and former CM Kamal Nath, Chattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, Congress veteran Digvijaya Singh and senior social gathering chief from Rajasthan Sachin Pilot additionally toured the state to woo the voters for his or her social gathering candidates.

For the primary time within the historical past of Madhya Pradesh, 28 Assembly seats within the 230-member House are going to bypolls in a single go. By-elections are being held in 25 seats as sitting Congress MLAs resigned and joined the BJP. They are actually within the fray as BJP candidates.

In the three different seats, the by-election was necessitated because of the demise of the sitting legislators. A couple of days again, yet another Congress MLA resigned. The BJP at the moment has 107 MLAs, whereas the Congress has 87 legislators within the House. The counting of votes will happen on November 10. 

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Fate of 88 candidates to be determined in UP bypolls

Eighty-eight candidates will face the electoral test within the bypolls to seven Uttar Pradesh meeting constituencies on Tuesday amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Of the seven seats going to the bypolls, six had been held by the BJP and one by the Samajwadi Party.

The seven meeting seats the place the bypolls will probably be held embrace Naugaon Sadat, which fell vacant after the demise of cupboard minister Chetan Chauhan. The BJP has fielded his spouse Sangeeta Chauhan for the bypolls. In Ghatampur (Kanpur), the bypolls had been necessitated because of the demise of sitting MLA and cupboard minister Kamal Rani Varun whereas in Tundla (Firozabad), MLA S P Singh Baghel was elected to Lok Sabha.

The Bangarmau (Unnao) seat fell vacant following the conviction of Kuldeep Singh Sengar in a rape case. The seats of Bulandshahr, Deoria and Malhani will go to bypolls because of the demise of sitting MLAs Virendra Singh Sirohi, Janmejay Singh and Parasnath Yadav (SP).

The counting of votes will happen on November 10. Eighteen candidates are within the fray from Bulandshahr. Six candidates are locked in a contest in Ghatampur, the bottom quantity among the many constituencies.

Sixteen candidates are within the fray from Malhani (Jaunpur), 14 every from Naugawan Sadat (Amroha), and Deoria, 10 every from Bangarmau (Unnao) and Tundla (Firozabad).

The Yogi Adityanath authorities has been dealing with criticism over the regulation and order state of affairs within the state, significantly after the Hathras and Balrampur rape and homicide circumstances.

Last week, Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad had launched the Azad Samaj Party marketing campaign for the bypoll in Bulandshahr. The bypolls will even be the primary electoral test for the Azad Samaj Party, which developed from the political motion of the Bhim Army led by Chandrashekhar Azad, as will probably be trying to consolidate its maintain among the many Dalits.

The Azad Samaj Party has fielded Md Yameen as its candidate from Bulandshahr. 

Earlier on Sunday, BSP supremo Mayawati too Sunday had appealed to individuals to vote for her social gathering candidates and ship a political message to rivals. 

Sira and RR Nagar bypolls in Karnataka 

The by-polls to 2 meeting Constituencies in Karnataka — Rajarajeshwari Nagar in Bengaluru Urban district and Sira in Tumakuru district– will happen on Tuesday amid the coronavirus pandemic. The voting will probably be held from 7 am to six pm within the two constituencies with a voting inhabitants of 6,78,012 together with 3,26,114 girls.

The demise of Sira MLA B Satyanarayana, who was from the JD(S), and the resignation of RR Nagar Congress MLA Munirathna from the meeting final yr, led to the bye-elections. There will probably be 1,008 polling stations, comprising 678 in RR Nagar and 330 in Sira, in response to an official assertion.

There are a complete 31 candidates within the fray within the bypolls — 15 in Sira and 16 in RR Nagar together with these from the Congress, BJP, and the JD(S). 

In RR Nagar, the BJP has fielded former Congress MLA Munirathna as its candidate whereas the Congress has given a ticket to H Kusuma, spouse of former IAS officer late D Ok Ravi within the seat historically held by the social gathering. The JD(S) has fielded V Krishnamurthy.

The RR Nagar has change into a prestigious subject for each the Congress and the BJP. The BJP had earlier held this constituency which Munirathna had wrested because the Congress MLA. 

This constituency is a part of the Bengaluru Rural Lok Sabha constituency which is represented by D Ok Suresh, who’s the brother of Congress state chief D Ok Shivakumar.

In Sira, the BJP, Congress, and JD(S) have fielded radiologist Dr Rakesh Gowda, former minister T B Jayachandra and former (JD-S) MLA B Satyanarayana’s spouse Ammajamma respectively. The BJP has by no means received the election from there, however this time, the social gathering would attempt to flip the tables on the Congress and the JD(S).

BJP had already wrested the KR Pet meeting constituency in Mandya from the JD(S), which was its stranglehold. A yr in the past throughout the Lok Sabha election, a BJP backed impartial MP Sumalatha Ambareesh, a multilingual movie actress, had received the election from Mandya defeating JD(S) H D Deve Gowda’s grandson and H D Kumaraswamy’s son Nikhil Kumaraswamy.

The JD(S) and the Congress have left no stone unturned to forestall the BJP from making any features right here.

In the 224-seat meeting, BJP has 116 MLAs minus the Speaker, Congress 67 and JD(S) 33, BSP 1 and there are two independents. There can also be a nominated member. 

(With Agency Inputs)