: Rajya Sabha bye-polls to seven vacant seats to be held on October 4 #IndiaNEWS The Election Commission on Thursday said that the bye-election to seven vacant Rajya Sabha seats for six states would

Rajya Sabha bye-polls to seven vacant seats to be held on October 4 #IndiaNEWS
The Election Commission on Thursday said that the bye-election to seven vacant Rajya Sabha seats for six states would be held on October 4, PTI reported.Bye-polls are conducted to fill vacant seats. Currently, there are two vacancies from Tamil Nadu and one seat each of West Bengal, Assam, Maharashtra, Puducherry and Madhya Pradesh are empty.The Madhya Pradesh seat has been vacant since Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former Union Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment Thaawar Chand Gehlot was appointed the governor of Karnataka in July.The two seats in Tamil Nadu were left vacant after All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader KP Munusamy and R Vaithilingam resigned as members of the Upper House, PTI reported. Munusamy and Vaithilingam now serve as MLAs in the Tamil Nadu Assembly.The Rajya Sabha seat for Assam had been vacated after Assembly speaker Biswajit Daimary resigned as a member. He was elected unopposed in 2020 while he was a member of the Bodoland People’s Front. However, Daimary defected to the BJP in November.Union Minister for Ports, Shipping and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal is likely to contest for the seat for Assam, News 18 reported. He has served as the chief minister of the state between 2016 and 2021. In West Bengal, the vacancy arose when Trinamool Congress leader and...Read more

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