UP assembly had declared these 10 seats vacant between June 7 and 18 and the bypoll there will be held within six months from the date of vacancy.The ECI may hold the bypoll there along with the election to assemblies of Haryana and Maharashtra, later this year.The five seats held by SP comprise of Katehari (Ambedkar Nagar), Karhal (Mainpuri), Milkipur (Ayodhya), Kundarki (Moradabad) and Sisamau (Kanpur). The seat of Sisamau has been vacated by sitting SP MLA Irfan Solanki who has been disqualified owing to his conviction and a sentence of seven years in a criminal case.Of them, Katehari has been vacated by SP MLA Lalji Verma who got elected to Lok Sabha from Ambedkar Nagar Lok Sabha seat.Similarly, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav resigned from Karhal (Mainpuri) assembly seat after winning from Kannauj Lok Sabha seat.CPI seeks ‘proper’ seat dealThe Communist Party of India (CPI) is expecting that it will get more seats to contest in the upcoming assembly elections in three states — Maharashtra, Jharkhand and Haryana — under ‘proper’ seat-sharing arrangement as part of the INDIA alliance. Buoyed by the outcome of the Lok Sabha polls, party general secretary D Raja said that there should be a proper seat-sharing arrangements among the INDIA bloc members for the polls.
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