GUWAHATI: Assam’s Chief Electoral Officer Anurag Goel has said the final electoral roll for by-elections to five assembly constituencies will be published on August 8.
The bypolls will take place in Dholai (SC), Sidli (ST), Bongaigaon, Behali and Samaguri as these seats fell vacant after their MLAs won the Lok Sabha elections.
Goal said the groundwork for the by-elections, which has to be conducted within six months of the declaration of Lok Sabha results, has already started.
“The elections in these constituencies will take place as per pre-delimitation status,” he added.
He said the draft rolls will be published on July 30 and claims and objections will be received till August 10. “This time claims and objections will be received offline as the online system was updated with post-delimitation data for the Lok Sabha polls,” Goel said.
After disposal of claims and objections by August 19, the final electoral roll will be published on August 20, the CEO said.
Lok Sabha MPs from BJP Parimal Suklabaidya and Ranjit Dutta were MLAs of the Dholai and Behali constituencies.
Its ally Asom Gana Parishad’s Phani Bhusan Choudhury represented Bongaigaon for eight consecutive terms since 1985 before stepping into Parliament for the first time.
BJP ally United People’s Party Liberal’s Joyanta Basumatary was an MLA from Sidli constituency before joining the Lok Sabha.
Congress MP Rakibul Hussain, who won the Dhubri Lok Sabha seat for a record over 10.12 lakh votes, was an MLA from Samaguri for five consecutive terms
The recently concluded Lok Sabha polls were the first elections after the Election Commission carried out the delimitation exercise in the state.
