The Election Commission said on Tuesday that bypolls for five Assembly seats in Assam would be held on November 13 and counting of votes would be taken up on November 23.
The ruling BJP is to contest three seats and has left two constituencies for its ally parties.
The five seats fell vacant after five legislators including one cabinet minister were elected to the parliament in this year's Lok Sabha polls.
This included two MLAs from the incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), one of whom is a cabinet minister, and one MLA each from alliance partners Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and United Peoples Party Liberal (UPPL), and one from the opposition Congress.
Dholai Assembly seat fell vacant after former cabinet minister Parimal Suklabaidya (BJP) won from the Silchar Lok Sabha seat. Similarly, senior BJP leader Ranjit Dutta vacated the Behali Assembly seat as he was elected to the lower house of the parliament.
The party opened its account in the parliament with its senior leader Phani Bhusan Choudhury getting elected from the Barpeta Lok Sabha seat. The party contested in two parliamentary constituencies in the state. However, it lost polls in Dhubri to Congress candidate Rakibul Hussain.
Choudhury was MLA for six successive terms from the Bongaigaon Assembly constituency. When the party nominated AGP candidate Choudhury from the Barpeta Lok Sabha seat, Choudhury's supporters protested against the decision taken by the party and requested Choudhury to continue being the MLA of Bongaigaon.
Samuguri Assembly seat was left vacant by the Congress leader Rakibul Hussain who defeated the three-time AIUDF MP and party chief Badruddin Ajmal in the Dhubri Lok Sabha seat with a margin of over 10 lakh votes.
UPPL's Joyanta Basumatary, former MLA of Sidli, also made news as he could manage to win Kokrajhar Lok Sabha seat.
State BJP president Bhabhesh Kalita said, "Our party will contest in three of the five Assembly constituencies, while the AGP and another ally, the UPPL, will each contest one seat."
He said the BJP would field candidates in Samaguri, Dholai and Bihali Assembly seats.
Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) is going to contest polls in the Bongaigaon Assembly seat and UPPL will be fielding a candidate in the Sidli Assembly constituency.
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