By-elections in seven assembly constituencies today
• The seven constituencies where polling will be held on Thursday are Gola Gorakhnath seat (Uttar Pradesh), Manugoda (Telangana), Adampur (Haryana), Mokama (Bihar), Gopalganj (Bihar), Andheri East (Maharashtra), and Dhamnagar (Bihar). Odisha), respectively
Bypolls to seven assembly seats in six states are to be held today (November 3). The seven constituencies that will go to polls on Thursday are Gola Gorakhnath seat (Uttar Pradesh), Manugoda (Telangana), Adampur (Haryana), Mokama (Bihar), Gopalganj (Bihar), Andheri East (Maharashtra), and Dhamnagar (Odisha). ) ), respectively.
Here's what you need to know about the bypolls to be held on November 3 in seven constituencies:
A state in Eastern India
Here, by-elections are being held in Mokama and Gopalganj seats. BJP is contesting from Mokama constituency for the first time as the saffron party had left the seat for its allies on previous occasions. Both the BJP and the RJD have fielded the wives of local musclemen in the bypolls.
Mokama has been Anant Singh's stronghold since 2005. He won the seat twice on a JD(U) ticket and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar appealed to voters to support him.
The BJP has fielded Kusum Devi, wife of late party MLA Subhash Singh, from Gopalganj. The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) has fielded Mohan Gupta, while Lalu Yadav's brother-in-law Sadhu Yadav's wife Indira Yadav is contesting as a Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) candidate.
Haryana
In Adampur, a by-election was necessitated after Kuldeep Bishnoi, younger son of former chief minister Bhajan Lal, resigned as an MLA from the seat and switched from the Congress to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in August. Bishnoi's son Bhavya is now contesting as a BJP candidate.
The Adampur seat has been occupied by the Bhajan Lal family since 1968, with the late former chief minister representing it on nine occasions, his wife Jasma Devi once and Kuldeep on four occasions.
The major parties contesting the by-elections include the Congress, the Indian National Lok Dal and the Aam Aadmi Party.
Bhavya (29) lost the 2019 Lok Sabha election from Hisar to BJP bureaucrat-turned-politician Brijendra Singh.
The Congress has also fielded former Union minister Jai Prakash, a three-time MP from Hisar and a two-time MLA.
INLD has fielded Congress rebel Kurda Ram Numberdar as its candidate. AAP has fielded Satendra Singh, who broke away from BJP.
Kuldeep Bishnoi had defeated late Sonali Phogat contesting on a BJP ticket in Adampur in the 2019 assembly elections.
Maharashtra
The by-election for the Andheri East assembly constituency in Mumbai will be held after the BJP candidate withdrew last month.
Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena faction candidate Rutuja Latte is expected to register a comfortable victory. He has been pitted against six candidates out of which four are independents. NCP and Congress have supported his candidature.
In May this year, the bypoll had to be held due to the death of Rutuja Latte's husband and Shiv Sena MLA Ramesh Latte. This is the first election after the fall of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government after Eknath Shinde and 39 other MLAs revolted in the Shiv Sena.
Orissa
Five candidates are in the fray for the by-election. The ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) has fielded a woman Abanti Das as its candidate, the opposition BJP's candidate is Suryavanshi Suraj.
The saffron party is dependent on sympathy votes as it has fielded the son of sitting MLAs whose death led to the bypolls.
Suraj is the son of late MLA Vishnu Charan Sethi who died on September 19 this year. In the panchayat and civic polls held in February and April this year, the BJD won all six Zilla Parishad seats and nine out of 11 wards of the Dhamnagar Notified Area Council (NAC). The party has also won all the bypolls since 2019.
Telangana
The BJP and the ruling Telangana Rashtriya Samithi (TRS) were campaigning aggressively in Telangana's Manugoda, where the Congress MLA had resigned and is fighting on a saffron party ticket.
The Election Commission has asked the Telangana Chief Electoral Officer to keep a "close watch" on Munugode assembly constituency amid allegations of attempts to induce voters through "various enforcement agencies".
The direction comes after the TRS alleged that BJP candidate K Rajagopal Reddy transferred ₹5.24 crore from the account of his family-owned firm to 23 people and entities within the constituency, with the latter denying the allegation.
The Election Commission on Saturday barred Telangana Energy Minister Guntakandala Jagadeesh Reddy from campaigning for 48 hours for violating the model code of conduct, as he allegedly sought to stop welfare schemes if he did not vote for the ruling TRS candidate. was threatened.
TRS, recently renamed as Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), aims to demonstrate its dominance in state politics
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