The Election Commission on Wednesday notified the by-elections to 11 Assembly and one lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh with the start of filing of nominations.
The by-polls will be held on September 13 and the results will be declared on September 16. All arrangements are in place to conduct the by-elections peacefully with the administrations of all the poll-bound districts issuing prohibitory orders under Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code and strictly enforcing the election model code of conduct.
The by-elections to the 11 Assembly seats are being held as 10 Bharatiya Janata Party MlAs and one Apna Dal legislator representing Rohaniya resigned their seats on being elected to the lok Sabha.
The by-election to the lone Mainpuri lok Sabha constituency is being held as Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav was elected from both Mainpuri and Azamgarh and decided to leave the former seat.
The SP has fielded Tej Pratap Singh Yadav, nephew of the party president, from Mainpuri seat.The party has announced all candidates for the Assembly by-polls except for the Noida seat. No other party has announced candidates for the by-elections so far.
Apna Dal, a partner of the BJP, has ,however, named party president Krishna Patel from the Rohaniya seat. Interestingly, Rohiniya is part of the Varanasi lok Sabha constituency represented by Prime Minster Narendra Modi.
According to the Election Commission, nominations will be accepted from Wednesday (August 20) to August 27. Scrutiny of the papers will be done on August 28 and candidates will be able to withdraw their nominations till August 30.
The Assembly seats going to by-elections are Saharanpur Sadar, Bijnore, Thakurdwara, Noida, Nighasan, lucknow East, Hamirpur, Charkhari, Sirathu, Balaha (SC) and Rohaniya. The by-election to Kairana assembly seat has been suspended due to some legal dispute