
THANE, May 9: The by-election to the Dahanu Assembly constituency in Thane district will be held on June 3, 1998. Filing of nominations started from today, but so far not a single nomination was received.
The district collector, Mr Srikant Singh today announced the election programme. The nominations will be received till May 16 and will be scrutinised on May 18. The last date for withdrawals of nomination will be May 20.
The Dahanu seat was vacated when the Congress MLA representing the constituency, Mr Shankar Nam got elected to the Lok Sabha.
Mr Singh said counting of votes will be taken up on June 5 at Dahanu and Mr Ganesh Patil would be the returning officer for the constituency. There were at least two sensitive polling booths in the constituency at Ambesari and Kansarodi, Mr Singh said.
The constituency has about 200 thousand voters, of which nearly half are women. The election machinery was all set for the elections and sufficient arrangements had been made to ensure peaceful polls, he said.