Bypolls to LS seats vacated by Modi, Mulayam to be held on 13 September

New Delhi: Bypolls to the Lok Sabha seats vacated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav will be held on 13 September, the Election Commission today announced.

Bypoll will also be held to Medak Lok Sabha seat vacated by TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao after he became the first Chief Minister of Telangana.

While Modi had retained Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, he vacated Vadodara in Gujarat. Similarly, Yadav had vacated Mainpuri and retained Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh.

Yadav and Rao had resigned on 26 May, while Modi tendered his resignation on May 29. All the three resignations were accepted with effect from 29 May.

The poll body also announced bypolls to 33 assembly seats vacated due to a various reasons in Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Sikkim, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh.

Announcing the schedule, EC said while filing of nominations will start from 20 August. The last date of filing nomination is 27 August.

The scrutiny of papers will be held the next day on 28 August and 30 August has been decided as the last date of withdrawing from the electoral race.

While bypolls will be held on 13 September, the counting will be held on 16 September.

EC proposes to complete the election exercise by 19 September, a statement said.

The poll panel has not yet announced bypoll for Beed Lok Sabha constituency in Maharashtra which fell vacant following the demise of Union Minister Gopinath Munde in a road mishap here recently.

PTI