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Rajasthan, West Bengal head for bypolls on Jan 29

BJP, Congress and TMC to lock horns for three seats in Rajasthan and 2 seats in Bengal; counting on Feb 1

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Other than EVMs, the Election Commission has decided to use Electronic Voter-Verified Paper Audit Trail at the polling stations
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The beginning of 2018 is again going to witness interesting poll battles between the BJP, the Congress and the Trinamool Congress. The Election Commission on Thursday announced bypolls for the Lok Sabha seats of Alwar and Ajmer as well as the Mandalgarh assembly seat of Rajasthan. 

Bypolls for West Bengal’s Uluberia parliamentary seat and Noapara assembly seat will also be held simultaneously. 

The polling for these seats will be held on January 29, 2018, and counting will take place on February 1. The last date of filing nominations is January 10 and date for scrutiny is January 11. 

Rajasthan bypolls will be interesting to watch as Vasundhara Raje’s government would be going through an acid test of assembly elections later in 2018. 

So far, only Congress has declared its candidate for Rajasthan bypolls for Alwar. The party has decided to field Karan Singh Yadav for Alwar parliamentary constituency. The seat was lying vacant after BJP’s Mahant Chand Nath passed away on September 17 following a prolonged illness. 

BJP’s Ajmer MP Sanwar Lal Jat had collapsed during a meeting of party MLAs and MPs with BJP chief Amit Shah in Jaipur on July 22. 

Jat passed away at the AIIMS hospital in New Delhi on August 9. 

Later that month, BJP’s Mandalgarh MLA Kirti Kumari also passed away on August 28 while undergoing treatment in Jaipur for influenza A (H1N1) or swine flu.

With the announcement of bypolls, the Model Code of Conduct comes into force with immediate effect “in the district(s) in which the whole or any part of the Parliamentary/Assembly Constituency going for bye-election is included.”

Along with Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), the Election Commission has decided to use Electronic Voter-Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) at the polling stations for the bye polls.

“Adequate number of EVMs and VVPATs have been made available and all steps have been taken to ensure that the polls are conducted smoothly with the help of these machines,” Commission’s Principal Secretary Sumit Mukherjee said in a statement on Wednesday.

Acid test for rajasthan 

  • LS seats of Alwar and Ajmer, and assembly seat Mandalgarh up for bypolls 
  • Raje govt would be going through an acid test of assembly elections later in 2018 
  • So far, only Congress has declared its candidate for Alwar: Karan S Yadav 
  • The Model Code of Conduct comes into force with immediate effect “in the relevant districts
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