Another poll bugle sounds for biennial elections in Punjab; schedule announced by ECI

Another poll bugle sounds for biennial elections in Punjab; schedule announced by ECI

Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in

The term of office of 13 members of the Rajya Sabha elected from following 06 States is due to expire on their retirement in April, 2022 as detailed below.

Out of the five seats to be filled from Punjab three are to be filled by holding one election and other two through another election as these seats belong to two different biennial cycles. Further, the term of office of the members to be elected to the Council of States from the State of Punjab shall be subject to the decision of the  Supreme Court in SLP(C) No. 17123/2015 (Election Commission of India Vs Devesh Chandra Thakur & Others).

Now, the Commission has decided to conduct biennial elections to the Council of States from above mentioned States in accordance with the following programme.

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.

Broad Guidelines of Covid-19 as already issued by ECI as well as the recent guidelines issued by ECI as contained in para 06 of Press Note dated 28.09.2021 available at link Schedule for Bye-elections in Parliamentary/Assembly Constituencies of various States – reg – Press Releases 2021 – Election Commission of India (eci.gov.in)to be followed, wherever applicable, during entire election process for all persons.

Another poll bugle sounds for biennial elections in Punjab; schedule announced by ECI. 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.

 

Sl. No.	State	No. of seats	Name of Member	Date of retirement
	Assam	02	Ranee Narah	02.04.2022
			Ripun Bora
	Himachal Pradesh	01	Anand Sharma	02.04.2022
	Kerala	03	A. K. Antony	02.04.2022
			M. V. Shreyams Kumar
			Somaprasad K
	Nagaland	01	K. G. Kenye	02.04.2022
	Tripura	01	Smti Jharna Das (Baidya)	02.04.2022
	Punjab	03	Sukhdev Singh	09.04.2022
			Partap Singh Bajwa
			Shwait Malik
		02	Naresh Gujral	09.04.2022
			Shamsher Singh Dullo

Sl. No.	Events	Dates
	Issue of Notifications	14th March, 2022 (Monday)
	Last date of making nominations	21st March, 2022 (Monday)
	Scrutiny of nominations	22nd March, 2022 (Tuesday)
	Last date for withdrawal of candidatures	24th March, 2022 (Thursday)
	Date of Poll	31st March, 2022 (Thursday)
	Hours of Poll	09:00 am- 04:00 pm
	Counting of Votes	31st March, 2022 (Thursday) at 05:00 pm
	Date before which election shall be completed	02nd April, 2022 (Saturday)

 

March 7,2022