By-elections to the four Assam Assembly constituencies - Rangapara, Sonari, Ratabari and Jania - will be held on Monday to decide the fate of 20 contestants by 6,78,898 voters, including 3,27,803 female and one third gender.
Polling officials with EVMs and VVPATs on Sunday moved to the 830 polling stations across the four constituencies, the election office here said.
The bypolls were necessitated with two sitting BJP MLAs and ministers Pallab Lochan Das (Rangapara) and Tapan Gogoi (Sonari), Deputy Speaker Kripanath Mallah (Ratabari) and Congress MLA Abdul Khaleque (Jania) elected to the Lok Sabha.
In Rangapara, five candidates are in the fray with the contest likely to be direct between Rajen Bortakur of BJP and Kartik Kurmi of Congress while the other candidates are Royal Soreng of CPI(M), Sanjit Rajbangshi of SUCI (Communist) and Arup Kumar Chowdhury of the Bharatiya Gana Parishad.
In Sonari, there will be a direct contest between the two candidates in fray - BJP's ...
