Tag: Byelections

Purohit said the recently-concluded bypoll at Dhamnagar proved that it is not necessary that the ruling party will win all the by-elections as was happening in Odisha till now.

As expected, the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Saturday announced the schedule of the by-election to Padampur assembly constituency in Odisha. The Padampur assembly seat had fallen vacant following the death of sitting MLA Bijay Ranjan Singh Bariha on October 3, 2022.

Apart from Padampur, the ECI also announced schedule for four other assembly constituencies including one each in Rajasthan, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh and one Parliamentary Constituency of Uttar Pradesh.

By Ashutosh Mishra Bhubaneswar: Major political parties in the state are now gearing up for the upcoming by-poll battle in Bijepur, the assembly seat that has fallen vacant following chief minister, Naveen Patnaik’s decision to retain his traditional Hinjili seat in Ganjam district. Patnaik’s decision to contest both from Hinjili and Bijepur, the latter being […]

Bengaluru: The ruling BJP bagged 10 seats and was leading in two others out of 15 constituencies that went for assembly bypolls last week, helping the B S Yediyurappa government hold on to power. The Congress, which won 12 of those 15 seats in the 2018 assembly polls, won only in two segments — Hunasuru […]