As per the election schedule, voting will be held on October 30 and counting of votes will take place on November 2. The election notification for both the seats will be issued on October 1. Nominations can be filed till October 8.
Elections were necessitated to the seats after Congress MLA from Vallabhnagar Gajendra Singh Shaktawat died due to Covid-19 on January 20, and BJP legislator from Dhariawad Gautam Lal Meena died of the infection on May 19.
The ruling Congress currently has 106 MLAs in the 200-member Rajasthan assembly, while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has 71, the Rashtriya Loktantrik Party (RLP) three, the CPM and the Bharatiya Tribal Party (BTP) two each, Rashtriya Lok Dal one and independents 13. Two seats are vacant.
In the bypolls held earlier for the Sahada, Sujangarh and Rajsamand assembly seats in the state, Congress had won two and BJP one.
It will be a prestige battle for both the parties to at least retain the seats they had held.
Other than the bypolls in Rajasthan, the EC also announced bypolls to three Lok Sabha seats and 28 other assembly seats in various states.
