Biennial Elections to Council of States to fill the seats of members retiring between June to July 2020

PIB News Update: The term of office of 06 members of the Rajya Sabha elected from following 03 states is due to expireon their retirement in June to July, 2020 as detailed below: 

 

Sl. No.	State	No. of seats	Name of Member	Date of retirement
	Arunachal Pradesh	01	Sh. MukutMithi	23.06.2020
	Karnataka	04	D. Kupendra Reddy	25.06.2020
			Prabhakar Kore
			Rajeev Gowda M.V.
			B.K. Hari Prasad
	Mizoram	01	Ronald SapaTlau	18.07.2020

 

A statement showing the details of the above mentioned vacancies is given in ‘Annexure-A’. The Commission after taking into account the guidelines dated 30.05.2020 issued by Union Home Secretary and Chairman, National Executive Committee (NEC) under the National Disaster Management Act,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	02nd June, 2020 (Tuesday)
	Last date of making nominations	09th June, 2020 (Tuesday)
	Scrutiny of nominations	10th June, 2020 (Wednesday)
	Last date for withdrawal of candidatures	12th June, 2020 (Friday)
	Date of Poll	19th June, 2020 (Friday)
	Hours of Poll	09:00 am to 04:00 pm
	Counting of Votes	19th June, 2020 (Friday) at 05:00 pm
	Date before which election shall be completed	22th June, 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.

Commission has also directed the Chief Secretaries concerned to depute a senior officer from the State to ensure that the extant instructions regarding COVID-19 containment measures are complied with while making arrangements for conducting the elections.

Further Commission also appointed Chief Electoral Officers concerned as Observer of the election in the respective states.

 

Annexure-‘A’

S.No	Name of State	Name of Member	Date of Retirement
	Arunachal Pradesh	Sh. Mukut Mithi	23.06.2020
	Karnataka	D. Kupendra Reddy	25.06.2020
		Prabhakar Kore
		Rajeev Gowda M.V.
		B.K. Hari Prasad
3.	Mizoram	Ronald Sapa Tlau	18.07.2020