The ruling Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) on Friday urged the Election Commission of India (ECI) to conduct a by-election to the Gandey Assembly seat "at the earliest".
The seat has fallen vacant after JMM legislator Sarfaraj Ahmad resigned from the Assembly on December 31. A notification in this regard was issued by the assembly secretariat on January 1.
A six-member delegation of the JMM led by party general secretaries Vinod Pandey and Supriyo Bhattacharya visited the office of Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) K. Ravi Kumar during the day and submitted a memorandum to him with a request to conduct the by-election.
