The EC has made a push for a law to bar people from contesting more than one seat and said that if it cannot be done, then a fine should be imposed on vacating the constituencies and forcing a bypoll.
Thirty-two nominations in all have been received for the upcoming bypoll to the Rajinder Nagar Assembly seat in Delhi, poll authorities said on Monday.
TMC has lodged a complaint with the chief electoral officer of Bengal against Suvendu Adhikari, alleging that he threatened police of dire consequences if they failed to act at the behest of BJP
The party also announced the names of Milan Ghosh and Sujit Das for Samserganj and Jangipur seats respectively.
The BJP has fielded city lawyer Priyanka Tibrewal against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Benerjee in the September 30 bypolls for the Bhabanipur assembly constituency seat.
Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar and Deputy CM Dushyant Chautala on Saturday held joint public meetings in the Baroda Assembly constituency and urged people to vote for BJP-JJP candidate on Nov 3
The AIADMK candidates won the Vikravandi and Nanguneri Assembly seats while the Congress bagged the Kamaraj Nagar seat in Puducherry
Election mismanagement led to the party's defeat in Dantewada
Parliamentary affairs minister Ananth Kumar claimed bypoll results were a thumbs-up for Narendra Modi government's demonetisation decision
Bypoll in Barjala was necessitated due to the resignation of Congress MLA Jitendra Sarkar in June