The Election Commission Monday set the ball rolling for the bypoll to the Tarn Taran Assembly segment in Punjab, announcing that the election will be held on November 11 and the results will be declared on November 14. With this model code of conduct has come into effect in the district.

The seat, which fell vacant after the death of AAP MLA Kashmir Singh Sohal in June, is set for a multi-cornered contest, with the ruling Aam Adami Party (AAP) looking to retain the constituency even as the other parties are banking on anti-incumbency.

The Tarn Taran bypoll will be the seventh Assembly by-election in Punjab since March 2022, when AAP snagged a landlside victory winning 92 of the 117 Vidhan Sabha seats. The ruling AAP has won five of the six bypolls held so far and now bet on a turncoat —

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