Bye Election to the Bihar Legislative Council by the members of Legislative Assembly (MLAs)
09 SEP 2021 11:51AM by PIB Delhi
There is a casual vacancy in the Bihar Legislative Council to be filled up by the members of Legislative Assembly. The details of the vacancy are as follows:
S.No. |
Name of Member |
Nature of election |
Date & Cause of vacancy |
Term upto |
1. |
Sh. Tanveer Akhtar |
By MLAs |
Death on 09.05.2021 |
21.07.2022 |
2. The Commission has decided to hold a bye-election to the Bihar Legislative Council by the members of the Legislative Assembly to fill the above mentioned vacancy as per the following schedule:
S.No. |
Events |
Dates |
|
Issue of Notification |
15th September, 2021 (Wednesday) |
|
Last Date of making nominations |
22nd September, 2021 (Wednesday) |
|
Scrutiny of nominations |
23rd September, 2021 (Thursday) |
|
Last date for withdrawal of candidatures |
27th September, 2021 (Monday) |
|
Date of Poll |
04th October, 2021 (Monday) |
|
Hours of Poll |
09:00am – 04:00pm |
|
Counting of Votes |
04th October, 2021 (Monday) at 05:00pm |
|
Date before which election shall be completed |
06th October, 2021 (Wednesday) |
3. Broad Guidelines of Covid-19 as already issued by ECI as well as the recent guidelines issued by ECI as contained in para 13 of Press Note dated 04.09.2021 available at link https://eci.gov.in/files/file/13681-schedule-to-fill-casual-vacancy-and-adjourned-poll-in-the-assembly-constituencies-regarding/ to be followed, wherever applicable, during entire election process for all persons.
4. The Chief Secretary, Bihar is being directed 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 election.
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