Simultaneous bypolls for 3 LS seats

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, MARCH 31. The Chief Election Commissioner, Dr. M. S. Gill, today announced that byelections to the Lok Sabha constituencies of Tiruchirapalli in Tamil Nadu, Shahjahanpur in Uttar Pradesh and Midnapore in West Bengal and the Kshetrigao Assembly constituency in Manipur, would be held on May 10 along with the Assembly polls in five States.

The poll to the Banamalipur Assembly constituency in Tripura will be held on May 11.

By-elections to the three Lok Sabha seats were caused due to the death of P. R. Kumaramangalam (Tiruchirapalli), Jitendra Prasada (Shahjahanpur) and Indrajit Gupta (Midnapore).

Dr. Gill said it was decided to defer the byelection for the Sabarkantha Lok Sabha constituency in Gujarat.

The decision was taken after considering representations and in order not to disrupt the quake-relief measures in the State.

By-elections to the Wachi, Tral, Doru and Habbakadal Assembly constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir would be held later.

This is due to the difficulties being faced with regard to availability of security forces, since they would be heavily deployed in the five States.

Dr. Gill said these clear vacancies were not subject to any election petition or appeal pending in any court, and the remaining tenure of the Assemblies concerned was more than one year and hence byelections to these Assembly seats would be held at a later date.

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