Biennial Elections to the Council of States to fill the seats of Members retiring April 2020

Election Commission

Biennial Elections to the Council of States to fill the seats of Members retiring April 2020

25 FEB 2020

The term of office of 55 members of the Rajya Sabha elected from 17 States is due to expire on their retirement in April, 2020 as detailed below:

Sl. No.	State	No. of seats	Date of retirement
	Maharashtra	7	02.04.2020
	Odisha	4
	Tamil Nadu	6
	West Bengal	5
	Andhra Pradesh	4	09.04.2020
	Telangana	2
	Assam	3
	Bihar	5
	Chhattisgarh	2
	Gujarat	4
	Haryana	2
	Himachal Pradesh	1
	Jharkhand	2
	Madhya Pradesh	3
	Manipur	1
	Rajasthan	3
	Meghalaya	1	12.04.2020

A statement showing the details of the above mentioned vacancies is given in ‘Annexure-A’ (hyperlinked). The Commission has decided that above mentioned biennial elections to the Council of States shall be held in accordance with the following programme: –

Sl.No.	Events	Dates
	Issue of Notifications	06^thMarch, 2020 (Friday)
	Last date of making nominations	13^th March, 2020 (Friday)
	Scrutiny of nominations	16^thMarch, 2020 (Monday)
	Last date for withdrawal of candidatures	18^th March, 2020 (Wednesday)
	Date of Poll	26^thMarch, 2020 (Thursday)
	Hours of Poll	09:00 am to 04:00 pm
	Counting of Votes	26^thMarch, 2020 (Thursday) at 05:00 pm
	Date before which election shall be completed	30^th March, 2020 (Monday)

The Commission has directed that for the purpose of marking preference(s) on the ballot paper only integrated violet colour sketch pen(s) of pre-fixed specification, provided by the Returning Officer, shall be used. No other pen shall, under any circumstances, be used in the above said elections.

Adequate measures for close monitoring of the election process by appointing observers shall be taken to ensure free and fair election.

Source: PIB

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