Byelections on 13 seats across seven states which had got vacant after Lok Sabha elections will take place today. The electoral exercise, the first since the Lok Sabha elections, will decide the fate of many veterans and some debutantes including Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu's wife Kamlesh Thakur.
The Assembly seats going to polls are Raiganj, Ranaghat Dakshin, Bagda and Maniktala in West Bengal; Badrinath and Manglaur in Uttarakhand; Jalandhar West in Punjab; Dehra, Hamirpur and Nalagarh in Himachal Pradesh; Rupauli in Bihar; Vikravandi in Tamil Nadu and Amarwara in Madhya Pradesh.
