Constituency | INC Candidate | BJP Candidate |
Samastipur - Bihar (Lok Sabha) | Dr. Ashok Kumar | |
Rajya Sabha - Uttar Pradesh | Sudhanshu Trivedi | |
Rajya Sabha - Bihar | Satish Dubey | |
Kishanganj - Bihar (Assembly Bye Election) | Sayeeda Banu | |
Mandawa - Rajasthan (Assembly Bye Election) | Rita Chaudhary | |
Khinwsar – Rajasthan - (Assembly Bye Election) | Harendra Mirdha | |
Balha - Uttar Pradesh (Assembly Bye Election) | Mannu Devi |
The demise of one of the top leaders of BJP Arun Jaitley (BJP) and the renowned lawyer Ram Jethmalani (RJD) has created a vacuum in the Rajya Sabha. BJP has announced that the party’s spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi and former Lok Sabha MP Satish Dubey will contest for these two Rajya Sabha MP posts from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar respectively.
Samastipur in Bihar will go for by polls due to the demise of Ramchandra Paswan who won from this seat on behalf of LJP in 2019 elections. Congress has nominated Dr. Ashok Kumar to contest from this seat. Earlier during the last elections, he lost to Ramchandra Paswan.
During the upcoming bye polls on October 21, 2019, Sayeeda Banu, Rita Chaudhary, Harendra Mirdha and Mannu Devi will field for Congress party from the assembly constituencies of Kishanganj (Bihar), Mandawa (Rajasthan), Khinwsar (Rajasthan) and Balha (Uttar Pradesh) respectively.