The Election Commission of India has issued a notification today for the by-election to the Dharmanagar Assembly constituency. The process of filing nominations has started today. However, no nomination papers were filed on the first day.
Nominations will be accepted until March 23. The scrutiny of nomination papers will take place on March 24, while the last date for withdrawing nominations is March 26. The polling will be held on April 9.
It should be noted that the by-election has been necessitated following the death of the sitting MLA and Speaker of the Tripura Legislative Assembly, Biswa Bandhu Sen, which has left the seat vacant.