Bypolls to all 12 vacant Assembly seats in AP on July 27

New Delhi, Jul 1 : By-elections to all 12 vacant Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh will be held on July 27, the Election Commission announced today.

Earlier, bypolls were to be held to ten seats -- Sirpur, Chennur (SC), Mancherial, Yellareddy, Nizamabad (Urban), Koratla, Dharmapuri (SC), Huzurabad, Siddipet and Warangal West Assembly constituencies. The Election Commission, in its June 21 order, decided against holding the bypolls to two Assembly seats - Vemulawada and Sircilla - as the election petitions against the winning candidates in last year's elections were still pending in court. The High Court, however, yesterday ordered that by-elections to Vemulawada and Sircilla Assembly constituencies have to be held along with the other 10 segments that are going to the polls on July 27.The court passed the orders on a petition by the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) challenging the decision of the Election Commission not to hold bypolls to Sircilla and Vemulawada Assembly constituencies in view of some election petitions pending in the court. ''Now, the Commission has decided to hold by-elections to fill the two vacancies, Vemulawada and Sircilla Assembly constituencies also, along with the 10 clear vacancies already announced,'' the poll watchdog said today.
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