Polls for 4 Rajya Sabha seats from J&K and bypoll for 1 from Punjab on Oct 24

NEW DELHI: The Election Commission connected Wednesday announced biennial polls to 4 Rajya Sabha berths from J&K and bypoll to a spot from Punjab. Polling for these seats volition beryllium held connected October 24.The 4 RS seats from J&K person been vacant since Feb 2021. The UT was nether President's regularisation astatine the time, and it was lone past twelvemonth that assembly elections were held.

The constitution of the legislative assembly has ensured the required electorate to behaviour the polls to capable up the seats vacated upon the status of Mir Mohammad Fayaz, Shamsher Singh, Ghulam Nabi Azad and Nazir Ahmed Laway.

EC said the 4 vacancies are to beryllium filled by holding 3 abstracted elections, successful accordance with the instrumentality and a verdict of Delhi HC dated Jan 14, 1994. EC connected Wednesday separately announced the RS bypoll to capable the vacancy created by the resignation of AAP subordinate from Punjab Sanjeev Arora.

He had resigned pursuing his predetermination to the Punjab assembly. Counting of votes for each 5 seats volition instrumentality spot successful the evening of Oct 24, an hr aft polling concludes. The bypoll yet again brings the absorption connected the governing AAP successful Punjab. When Arora won the assembly bypoll, AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal made it wide helium was not going to RS. Every clip speculation implicit the contented has gained momentum successful the past, the grapevine has been abuzz with names of elder AAP netas Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain arsenic probables.