Bye Elections to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council by the members of Legislative Assembly (MLAs) – reg.

There are two casual vacancies in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council by the members of Legislative Assembly. The details of the vacanciesare as follows:

Name of Member

Nature of election

Cause of vacancy

Term up to

Sri Ahmed Hasan

By MLAs

Death on

20^th February, 2022

30^th January, 2027

Sri Thakur Jaiveer Singh

By MLAs

Resignation on

24^th March, 2022

05^th May, 2024

2. The Commission has decided to hold two separate bye-elections to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council by the members of the Legislative Assembly to fill the above mentioned vacancies as per the following common schedule: –

S. No.	Events	Dates
	Issue of Notification	25^thJuly, 2022 (Monday)
	Last Date of making nominations	01^st August, 2022 (Monday)
	Scrutiny of nominations	02^nd August, 2022 (Tuesday)
	Last date for withdrawal of candidatures	04^thAugust, 2022 (Thursday)
	Date of Poll	11^th August, 2022 (Thursday)
	Hours of Poll	09:00 am- 04:00 pm
	Counting of Votes	11^th August, 2022 (Thursday) at 05:00 pm
	Date before which election shall be completed	16^th August, 2022 (Tuesday)

3. Broad Guidelines of Covid-19 issued by ECI as contained in para 06 of Press Note, dated 25^th May, 2022, available at link https://eci.gov.in/files/file/14188-schedule-for-bye-election-in-parliamentaryassembly-constituencies-of-various-states/ to be followed, wherever applicable, during entire election process by all persons.

4. The Chief Secretary, Uttar Pradesh 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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