EC reschedules bypolls of 14 Assembly seats to Nov 20

The Election Commission of India on Monday, November 4, ordered a reschedule of by-elections in 14 Assembly seats in Kerala, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh. The by-elections will now be held on November 20 instead of November 13.

The Election Commission took the decision after parties such as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Indian



National Congress (INC), Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), and Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) cited “large scale social, cultural and religious engagements on that day.”

According to the Congress, a significant portion of the electorate in the Palakkad assembly seat in Kerala will celebrate the festival of Kalpathi Rastholsavam from November 13 to 15.