Gandhinagar: Two vacant assembly seats in Gujarat – Radhanpur and Bayad will go for by-polls on 21st October. Election Commission of India (ECI) today announced the schedule of two-seat by-poll. ECI had yesterday declared the schedule of by-polls for another four vacant assembly seats in Gujarat. By-poll is necessitated on Radhanpur and Bayad seats due to resignations of then Congress MLAs Alpesh Thakor and Dhavalsinh Zala. Both later joined BJP. They are likely to contest on their respective assembly seats again in by-poll as BJP candidates.

Gazette notification: 23 September

Last date of nominations: 30th October

Scrutiny of nominations: 1st October

Last date for withdrawal: 3rd October

Date of poll: 21st October

Date of counting: 24th October

Date before election to be completed: 27th October

Source: Election Commission of India

The schedule is same as the schedule declared yesterday for four other vacant assembly seats namely Tharad, Kheralu, Amraiwadi(in Ahmedabad city) and Lunawada.

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