NEW DELHI: The Election Commission announced assembly polls in Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland on Friday, giving Tripura chief minister Manik Sarkar the chance to join the exclusive club of long-serving chief ministers led by Jyoti Basu and for former Lok Sabha Speaker PA Sangma to prove his relevance in Meghalaya politics.
While Tripura will vote on February 14, Meghalaya and Nagaland will poll together on February 23. The model code of conduct will apply in all three states as well as to the Union government with immediate effect.
Counting is scheduled in all the three states on February 28.
For the Congress, a win in Nagaland and Meghalaya would help to fill up its rather bare cupboard of recent electoral wins and assert its credentials as the only mainstream party with a pan-Indian presence.
The EC on Friday also announced by-polls to nine assembly seats spread across seven states. While polls to one assembly seat each in Mizoram, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh as well as to three assembly seats in West Bengal are scheduled for February 23, an assembly seat each in Assam, Bihar and Maharashtra will go to polls a day later on February 24.
Counting for the bypolls will also be held on February 28, the day when the Union budget is likely to be presented.
While the poll notification for Tripura will be issued on January 21, the notifications for Meghalaya and Nagaland shall be out on January 30.
The assembly polls and bypolls are to be completed by March 3.
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