Punjab Newsline, New Delhi, June 10-
A week after announcing the results of the Lok Sabha and assembly polls, the Election Commission of India on Monday announced the dates of polling and counting for by-elections in seven states.
The elections will be conducted on July 10 and the counting will be done on July 13. The by-polls are held for these constituencies: Rupauli in Bihar, Raiganj, Ranaghat Dakshin, Bagda and Maniktala in West Bengal, Vikravandi in Tamil Nadu, Amarwara in Madhya Pradesh, Badrinath and Manglaur in Uttarakhand, Jalandhar West in Punjab and Dehra, Hamirpur and Nalagarh in Himachal Pradesh.
The by-polls are primarily necessitated by the demise or resignation of the elected representatives.