Polls on March 28 to fill 58 RS seats
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The Election Commission on Thursday decided to hold elections on March 28 to fill 58 seats with the expiry of terms by members, including Union ministers Arjun Singh and H R Bharadwaj, Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman K Rahman Khan and senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sushma Swaraj.
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Thursday decided to hold elections on March 28 to fill 58 seats with the expiry of terms by members, including Union ministers Arjun Singh and H R Bharadwaj, Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman K Rahman Khan and senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sushma Swaraj.
A maximum of 10 seats in Uttar Pradesh, six each in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and Maharashtra, five each in Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal, four each in Gujarat and Karnataka, three each in Orissa and Rajasthan, two in Jharkhand and one each in Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Uttaranchal will fall vacant next month.
The retiring members are Alladi P Rajkumar, Raashid Alvi, Dasari Narayana Rao, Ramamuni Reddy Sirigi Reddy, K Rama Mohana Rao and Vanga Geetha (Andhra Pradesh), Kum Kum Rai, Faguni Ram, Mahendra Prasad, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Vidya Sagar Nishad, Vijay Singh Yadav (Bihar).
Kamla Manhar (Chhattisgarh), Arjun Jaitley, A K Patel, Parmar Rajubhai Arjanbhai, Bachani Lekhraj Hemraj (Gujarat), Faquir Chand (Haryana), Kripal Parmar (Himachal Pradesh), S S Ahluwalia, R K Anand (Jharkhand), K B Krishna Murthy, Bimba Raikar and a seat vacated by M Rajashekara Murthy (Karnataka).
Narayan Singh, P K Maheswari and Vikramsingh (Madhya Pradesh), Balavant Apte, Khan Yusuf Sarwar (Dilip Kumar), Gavai Ramkrishna Suryabhanji, Vasant Chavan, Praful Patel and Ram Jethmalani (Maharashtra).
A maximum of 10 seats in Uttar Pradesh, six each in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and Maharashtra, five each in Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal, four each in Gujarat and Karnataka, three each in Orissa and Rajasthan, two in Jharkhand and one each in Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Uttaranchal will fall vacant next month.
The retiring members are Alladi P Rajkumar, Raashid Alvi, Dasari Narayana Rao, Ramamuni Reddy Sirigi Reddy, K Rama Mohana Rao and Vanga Geetha (Andhra Pradesh), Kum Kum Rai, Faguni Ram, Mahendra Prasad, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Vidya Sagar Nishad, Vijay Singh Yadav (Bihar).
Kamla Manhar (Chhattisgarh), Arjun Jaitley, A K Patel, Parmar Rajubhai Arjanbhai, Bachani Lekhraj Hemraj (Gujarat), Faquir Chand (Haryana), Kripal Parmar (Himachal Pradesh), S S Ahluwalia, R K Anand (Jharkhand), K B Krishna Murthy, Bimba Raikar and a seat vacated by M Rajashekara Murthy (Karnataka).
Narayan Singh, P K Maheswari and Vikramsingh (Madhya Pradesh), Balavant Apte, Khan Yusuf Sarwar (Dilip Kumar), Gavai Ramkrishna Suryabhanji, Vasant Chavan, Praful Patel and Ram Jethmalani (Maharashtra).
Other members retiring are Balvir K Punj, Kalraj Mishra, Ram Nath Kovind, Ram Bakhsh Singh Verma, Ghanshyam Chandra Kharwar, Sakshi Maharaj, Janeshwar Mishra, Dara Singh Chauhan, Rajeev Shukla and M M Agarwal (Uttar Pradesh).
Nilotpal Basu, Dipankar Mukherjee, Manoj Bhattacharya, Jayanta Bhattacharya and a seat fallen vacant on account of the death of Biplab Dasgupta will go to polls in West Bengal.
Nilotpal Basu, Dipankar Mukherjee, Manoj Bhattacharya, Jayanta Bhattacharya and a seat fallen vacant on account of the death of Biplab Dasgupta will go to polls in West Bengal.
Birabhadra Singh, B J Panda and Rudra Narayan Pany (Orissa), Jamna Devi, Mool Chand and Rama Prasad (all Rajasthan) retire next month.
According to the poll schedule, notifications will be issued on March 10. While the last date for filing nominations is March 17, scrutiny takes place the following day. The last date for withdrawal of nominations is March 20.
Counting takes place on March 28.
The commission decided to hold biennial elections to 13 seats in UP and 10 seats in legislative councils in UP and Bihar.
According to the poll schedule, notifications will be issued on March 10. While the last date for filing nominations is March 17, scrutiny takes place the following day. The last date for withdrawal of nominations is March 20.
Counting takes place on March 28.
The commission decided to hold biennial elections to 13 seats in UP and 10 seats in legislative councils in UP and Bihar.
- Bihar
- Andhra Pradesh
- Arjun Singh
- bharatiya janata party
- Chhattisgarh
- Election Commission
- Gujarat
- Haryana
- Himachal Pradesh
- Karnataka
- Madhya Pradesh
- Maharashtra
- Praful Patel
- Rajasthan
- Rajya Sabha
- Sushma Swaraj
- Uttar Pradesh
- West Bengal
- Ahluwalia
- B J Panda
- Balavant Apte
- Biplab Dasgupta
- Dara Singh Chauhan
- Dasari Narayana Rao
- Dilip Kumar
- Janeshwar Mishra
- Kalraj Mishra
- Mahendra Prasad
- NEW DELHI
- Raashid Alvi
- Rajeev Shukla
- Ram Jethmalani
- Ram Nath Kovind
- Ravi Shankar Prasad
- Rudra Narayan Pany
- Sakshi Maharaj
- Kripal Parmar
- Parmar Rajubhai Arjanbhai
- Punj
- Kamla Manhar
- Rama Mohana Rao
- Uttaranchal
- Faquir Chand
- Ram Bakhsh Singh Verma
- Agarwal
- Narayan Singh
- Mool Chand
- Rama Prasad
- Balvir
- Orissa
- Vanga Geetha
- Krishna Murthy
- K Anand
- A K Patel
- Bimba Raikar
- Balvir K Punj
- Vasant Chavan
- Birabhadra Singh
- Bachani Lekhraj Hemraj
- Khan Yusuf Sarwar
- Dipankar Mukherjee
- Manoj Bhattacharya
- Rajashekara Murthy
- Arjun Jaitley
- Ghanshyam Chandra Kharwar
- Vidya Sagar Nishad
- Jamna Devi
- H R Bharadwaj
- K Rahman Khan
- Kum Kum Rai
- Jayanta Bhattacharya
- Nilotpal Basu
- Gavai Ramkrishna Suryabhanji
- Ramamuni Reddy Sirigi Reddy
- Alladi P Rajkumar
- K Maheswari
- Vijay Singh Yadav
- Vikramsingh
- Faguni Ram