The look forward to announcement of bypoll dates in round 50 constituencies continued just a little extra on Tuesday because the Election Fee declared the dates for Maharashtra and Jharkhand Meeting polls at a press convention. Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar concluded his handle by thanking the viewers and interesting to voters to end up in enormous numbers.
The Q&A session was about to start out when his fellow Commissioner Sukhbir Singh Sandhu turned to CEC and reminded him that the bypoll bulletins had been but to be made. “Sorry, sorry, sorry, by-elections additionally,” the CEC mentioned, earlier than continuing to the slide with the bypoll schedule.
A Completely different Facet
IN WHAT appeared like a routine scene within the Supreme Courtroom, Solicitor Common Tushar Mehta was seen arguing for a state authorities on Tuesday. He assured a bench headed by Justice Bela Trivedi that the impugned notification was withdrawn by the state authorities.
Nevertheless, the state authorities that briefed the Centre’s high lawyer was Congress-ruled Karnataka. It’s learnt that the Karnataka authorized group roped within the SG to keep away from the courtroom’s wrath. Mehta too didn’t appear to thoughts for the reason that case concerned scheduling of board examinations and didn’t have any political stakes for the Centre.
Seat Or Publish
THE ELECTION Fee has introduced bypolls to 9 Meeting seats in Uttar Pradesh on November 13 however INDIA allies Congress and Samajwadi Get together are but to reach at a seat-sharing settlement. A gathering between the highest management of the 2 events was held on Monday, the place, sources mentioned, the Congress leaders requested the SP to compromise on one seat because the grand outdated occasion is just not within the CM race within the state.
The Congress leaders gave the explanation that in seat-sharing talks in Lok Sabha elections, the SP had made the Congress half with a couple of extra saying that its chief Rahul Gandhi was the PM candidate. Throughout Monday’s assembly, the Congress used the identical logic, saying the SP ought to go away one seat — Meerapur or Kundarki — for its ally as SP chief Akhilesh Yadav will likely be INDIA bloc’s CM candidate within the Meeting elections.
