Ajit Sharma, the current Congress Legislative Party leader, told India TV that although the Congress and RJD are contesting the bypolls separately, party president Sonia Gandhi has the right to decide the fate of alliance. "The RJD is responsible for the current situation," he said.
In a letter sent to the Election Commission of India, Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal has submitted a list of 20 star campaigners -- which also includes new inductee Kanhaiya Kumar -- for the by-elections to Mandi Lok Sabha and Arki, Fatehpur and Jubbal-Kotkhai Assembly seats of Himachal Pradesh.
Meanwhile, the BJP list of campaigners contains names of Union minister Smriti Irani, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sharma, MP from Bihar Giriraj Singh as heavyweights from outside the state.
All is not well within the Yadav clan with Tej Pratap raising questions over people running the party founded by his father.
In Panchayat Samiti bypolls, Congress won the highest 36 of the 144 seats on offer followed by BJP 33, Shiv Sena 23 and NCP 18 seats, SEC results showed.
The voting for the 2 seats of Kusheshwar Sthan and Tarapur is to be held on Oct 30 and the results will be out on Nov 2.
The Congress has fielded candidates for the upcoming bypolls to Kusheshwar Asthan and Tarapur seats in Bihar after the RJD refused to withdraw its candidates.
Pappu Yadav, who was acquitted in the 32-year-old kidnapping case on Monday, was in the limelight for his attempts to help common people during the Covid pandemic and lockdown.
Voting for 44 seats in 11 wards, which were to be held in April but were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The BJP has announced Subhash Pirajirao Savane from Deglur (SC) assembly constituency of Maharashtra. The saffron party has fielded K. Ladinthara from Tuirial (ST) assembly seat in Mizoram.
The counting of votes for the West Bengal bypolls will begin in Kolkata at 8 am on Sunday amid heavy security deployment.
The by-election was necessitated following the death of BJD MLA Pradeep Maharathy in October last year.
EC had asked the state government to submit a report on the incident, where it had mentioned that eight people were arrested in the matter.
In the directive issued by the commission, situations related to pandemics, floods, festivals, cold conditions in certain regions, feedback from concerned States/UT are taken into consideration.
Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), Trinamool Congress chief and said BJP is a 'jumla' party.
Targeting the chief minister over post-poll violence, Priyanka Tibrewal said that the people of the state have the right to live but this right is being taken away by Mamata Banerjee and her party.
BJP has fielded Priyanka Tibrewal, a lawyer by profession as its candidate in the upcoming Bhabanipur bypolls pitting her against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on September 30.
Interestingly, disgruntled leader Babul Supriyo, who had resigned from active politics but was persuaded by BJP chief JP Nadda against resigning as a Lok Sabha member, has also found a place in the list of star campaigners.
The MP Rajya Sabha seat got vacant after BJP leader and former Union cabinet minister Thaawarchand Gehlot was elevated as K'taka Governor.
The Congress will neither field any candidate opposite Banerjee nor campaign against her in the run up to the September 30 bypoll, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said.
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