The by-election will be an opportunity for the Grand Old Party to make their presence in the Delhi assembly which did not even manage to get a single seat in the last assembly election.
On Thursday, two months after Aam Aadmi Party MLA Jarnail Singh resigned from the Delhi Assembly to contest in Punjab Assembly polls, the Election Commission announced the bypoll date for the vacant seat to take place on April 9. The by-election will be a big contest for all the three political parties — BJP, Congress and AAP — as it set the course of 2017 municipal polls which is also scheduled at the end of April.
In its statement about the by-election the Election Commission said. "After taking into consideration various factors like climatic conditions, major festivals, prevailing law and order electoral rolls and availability of central police, the Election Commission has decided to hold by election to fill up the vacancy of Rajouri Garden."
The EC also announced April 9 as the polling day and April 13 for the by-election result. The election body has announced March 21 as last date for filing nomination papers for the candidates and March 24 as last date for the withdrawal of candidates.
The by-election will be an opportunity for the Grand Old Party to make their presence in the Delhi assembly which did not even manage to get a single seat in the last assembly election. For BJP it will be a bid to claim their hold in the city and for AAP they will look to reinstate themselves as the common people's party after many charges of irregularities.
In January, Singh had sent his resignation from the post of MLA to Speaker Ram Niwas Goel to contest elections in Punjab. Singh recently contested in a three-way battle in Punjab's Lambi constituency in the assembly elections on February 4. He faced incumbent Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh there.
This is not the first time though Singh has been in the news. In April 2009, then a journalist with a national daily, Singh had hurled a shoe at Chidambaram, who was then Home Minister, in protest against his remarks on the clean chit to Congress leaders in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.
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