Six candidates have filed their nominations for the April 10 Risod assembly by-election here today.
Risod assembly constituency, which is now in Washim district, is also the segment of Akola Lok Sabha constituency. Therefore, the voters of Risod assembly constituency would cast their votes to choose an MLA as well as an MP on the same day.
Congress candidate Amit Zanak, the son of late Subhash Zanak, BJP's Vijay Jadhav and BRP-BMS's Kiran Kshirsagar and other three independents Vishnupant Bhutekar, Sonali Sable and nominations on the last their filing nominations on March 22, 2014.
Subhash Zanak, the Congress MLA from Risod constituency and ex-Cabinet minister of Women and Child Development in Maharashtra government, had died at a hospital here in October last year.
