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Byelection for two
LS, 11 Assembly seats today
New Delhi, December 3 The Karimnagar bypoll was caused by the resignation of the Chief K Chandrasekhara Rao and the Bobbili by-poll by the death of Telugu Desam Party's sitting MP K Paidithalli Naidu. The Chamundeshwari Assembly segment in Karnataka, where former Deputy Chief Minister Siddaramiah is the Congress nominee, has turned highly prestigious with the unusually high pitch of campaign and high stakes waged by the ruling JD(S)-BJP combine and the Congress. The Kota Assembly constituency in Chhattisgarh will be an acid test for former Chief Minister Ajit Jogi's wife, Dr Renu, who will face her BJP rival Bhupendra Singh Thakur in the by-poll. The Chamundeshwari bypoll was necessitated by the resignation of former Deputy Chief Minister Siddaramaiah who quit as JD(S) member and is now contesting as the Congress' official nominee whereas the byelection for the Kota seat was necessitated following the death of Congress veteran Rajendra Prasad Shukla, who was the first Speaker of the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly and former Speaker of the Vidhan Sabha of undivided Madhya Pradesh. With heavyweights like Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje and her predecessor Ashok Gehlot pitching in to wrest the Dungarpur seat, the Assembly segment has become a prestige contest, both for the ruling BJP and Opposition Congress. The Rongjeng byelection in Meghalaya would be a litmus test for the ruling Congress in Garo Hills against a backdrop of a tug-of-war between Chief Minister J D Rymbai and his predecessor D D Lapang and other party functionaries. Meanwhile, foolproof arrangements, including unprecedented security, have been made for the smooth conduct of bypoll in the Thiruvambadi Assembly constituency in Kerala and the Manihari Assembly constituency in Bihar. Besides, Roing in Arunachal Pradesh, Pandhana in Madhya Pradesh, Daryapur and Chimur in Maharashtra and Islampur in West Bengal will also go for bypoll tomorrow.
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Jaipur, December 3 AICC general secretary and former Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot alleged that 18 ministers of the Raje government were camping in the constituency. Accusing BJP leaders of misusing government machinery, he said the ministers should be asked to leave the place immediately. — PTI
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‘High sales’ of liquor worries EC
New Delhi, December 3 In a letter to the state Chief Secretary, the EC said reports suggested unusual high sales effected to six retail outlets in Bangalore which disposed off the stocks within 24 hours. "However, no receipts for having sold the stocks were available," it said. "Except in one case, all other consignments had been moved in one lorry. It is not feasible that five consignments totalling 1,250 boxes were transported in a single lorry," the EC said, adding if the shops were to have sold the stocks within 24 hours, about 6,000 customers should have visited each shop for such sale to take place. "This could have been diverted especially since consignments of liquor have been seized in Mysore where the Model Code of Conduct is in operation and the possibility of tracing this seizure to the above sales cannot be ruled out", it said. The EC directed the state government to ensure tracing of the seized liquor to its original sales and fix responsibility. Former Deputy Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who parted ways with the JD(S) recently, is contesting on the Congress ticket from the constituency. — PTI
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Hyderabad, December 3 Accusing the ruling Congress of trying to mislead the agitated beedi workers, the main Opposition TDP today warned of continuing the agitation till the order on mandatory printing of the health warning was scrapped. “The government is deliberately sending confusing signals. Nothing short of withdrawal of the central notification will satisfy us,” TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu said. As the issue dominated the campaign for by-election to Karimnagar Lok Sabha constituency, where beedi workers form a significant chunk of voters, Union Minister of State for Health Panabaka Lakshmi yesterday announced that the Centre had decided to defer the implementation of the order. The Centre had in July this year issued the order making it mandatory for beedi manufacturers to print the health warning sign on each beedi wrapper to the extent of 50 per cent of its display area. — PTI
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