New Delhi: The bye-elections to the Rajya Sabha, to fill the two vacant seats from Gujarat and one from Assam, will be held on March 1, 2021, the Election Commission announced today.
The two Gujarat seats were lying vacant following the deaths of the members, Congress Party treasurer Ahmed Patel, and Bharatiya Janata Party’s Abhay Ganpatray Bhardwaj. Both had died of COVID-19 complications respectively on November 25 and December 1, last year.
The Assam seat was lying vacant after the incumbent Biswajit Daimary, who had got elected for the third term in November 2020 as a Bodoland People’s Front candidate, vacated his seat on November 21, 2020 as he quit his party to join the Bharatiya Janata Party.
– global bihari bureau
