Rajasthan News / By-election on Sardarshahr seat of Churu, voting on December 5 - counting will be done on 8

Rajasthan News: The Election Commission has released the schedule of by-elections for 5 assembly seats and one Lok Sabha seat lying vacant in 5 states of the country including Rajasthan. Voting for the Sardarshahr seat of Churu district in the state will be held on December 5, while the counting of votes will be held on December 8 along with the Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat assembly elections.

The result will also come on the same day. According to the schedule released by the commission, by-elections will be held on 5 assembly seats of Orissa, Rajasthan, Bihar, Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh, while Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat of Uttar Pradesh.

Sardar Shahar seat of Churu district in Rajasthan fell vacant after the death of former MLA Bhanwar Lal Sharma. MLA Bhanwar Lal Sharma, who came after winning on the Congress symbol, was battling illness for a long time. He died last month on October 9. Sharma had been an MLA from this seat for 7 times. In such a situation, Congress can now field Anil Sharma, a member of the same family, from this seat.

Election on Mulayam and Azam Khan's seat too

The Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat fell vacant after the death of SP supremo Mulayam Singh. Apart from this, after sacking the membership of Azam Khan, who became MLA from Rampur CK Pat after winning the by-election in March itself, the commission has also announced to conduct elections there. Azam Khan's membership was terminated for spending more than 2 years in jail.

Six MLAs died in four years

After the construction of the new building of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly, it has been a coincidence that never 200 MLAs sit here together. After the death of Bhanwarlal Sharma, there are now 199 MLAs left in the assembly. So far, six MLAs have died in the current 15th Assembly in four years.

Earlier, during the Corona period, Minister and MLA from Sujangarh Master Bhanwarlal, Congress MLA Kailash Trivedi from Sahara, Congress MLA Gajendra Singh Shaktawat from Vallabhnagar, BJP MLA Kiran Maheshwari from Rajsamand and BJP MLA from Dhariyavad Gautam Lal Meena have died.

Here will be the schedule of the by-election

Nominations: November 10 to 17

Scrutiny of nomination papers: 18 November

Last date for withdrawal of nominations: 21 November

Voting: 5 December

Counting and Result: 8 December