By-election for ten Bihar assembly seats on August 21

July 19, 2014 20:14

By-election for ten legislative assembly seats in Bihar, which will turn interesting if the JD-U and the RJD joined hands against the BJP, will take place on August 21, Election Commission officials said today.

The bypoll on ten Assembly seats have been necessitated after some members got elected to the Lok Sabha and resignation by some others.

The constituencies that will see the bypoll are Narkatiaganj, Rajnagar (SC), Jale, Chapra, Hajipur, Mohiuddinagar, Parbatta, Bhagalpur, Banka and Mohania (SC).

Sitting members at Chapra, Bhagalpur, Hajipur, Mohania and Narkatiaganj who are Janardan Singh Sigriwal, Ashwani Choubey, Nityanand Rai, Chhedi Paswan and Satish Chandra Dubey respectively, have been elected to the Lok Sabha in the recently concluded general elections.

Legislators from the rest five seats resigned for political reasons.

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