Ahead of the assembly elections in Bihar, former IPS officer Shivdeep Lande launched a new political party in Patna on Tuesday and named it ‘Hind Sena’. He also announced that the party will contest all 243 assembly seats in the state.
The sheer desperation of CPM is evident when it collaborated with CPIML (Liberation) to field candidates for the ensuing by-election in six Assembly seats.
These elections were necessitated after the State Legislative Assembly Speaker Kuldeep Singh Pathania accepted the resignation of the three independent MLAs, K L Thakur of Nalagarh, Hoshyar Singh of Dehra, and Ashish Sharma of Hamirpur on June 3.
According to a communiqué issued by the EC, polling in these 13 Assembly constituencies in seven states will be held on 10th July.
Kejriwal had earlier stated that changing the name of the country was a betrayal to the country.
Early trends of Uttar Pradesh bye-elections showed Samajwadi Party and Apna Dal -AD (S) leading on one seat each.
The polling and counting dates of the bypolls coincide with those of the Assembly polls in Karnataka.
By-elections will be held from 7 am to 6 pm amid tight security and the counting of votes will be conducted on November 6.
The Election Commission Monday announced by-elections to seven vacant Assembly seats in six states to be held in November.
The number of seats for members of the Uttar Pradesh state Assembly has been increased to 415 for the first Budget Session that will begin on May 23.
