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by PIB Delhi
The term of office of 57members of the Council of States elected from following 15 States is due to expireon their retirement on the dates during the period from June-August, 2022,as detailed below:
S.No Name of State Name of Member Date of Retirement Andhra Pradesh 1 Prabhu Suresh Prabhakar 21.06.2022 2 T.G. Venkatesh 3 Yalamanchili Satyanarayana Chowdary 4 Venumbaka Vijaya Sai Reddy Telangana 1 Lakshmikanta Rao Voditela 2 Srinivas Dharmapuri Chhattisgarh 1 Chhaya Bai Verma 29.06.2022 2 RamvicharNetam Madhya Pradesh 1 VivekkrishnaTankha 2 Mobashar Jawed Akbar 3 SampatiyaUikey Tamil Nadu 1 T.K.S. Elangovan 2 A. Navaneethakrishnan 3 R.S. Bharathi 4 S.R. Balasubramoniyan 5 A. Vijayakumar 6 K.R.N. Rajeshkumar Karnataka 1 K.C. Ramamurthy 30.06.2022 2 Jairam Ramesh 3 Oscar Fernandes (Vacant w.e.f 13.09.2021) 4 Nirmala Sitharaman Odisha 1 Nekkanti Bhaskar Rao 01.07.2022 2 Prasanna Acharya 3 Sasmit Patra Maharashtra 1 Goyal, Piyush Vedprakash 04.07.2022 2 P. Chidambaram 3 Patel, Praful Manoharbhai 4 Mahatme, Vikas Haribhau 5 Raut, Sanjay Rajaram 6 Sahasrabuddhe, Vinay Prabhakar Punjab 1 Ambika Soni 04.07.2022 2 Balwinder Singh Rajasthan 1 Omprakash Mathur 2 AlphonsKannanthanam 3 Ramkumar Verma 4 Harshvardhan Singh Dungarpur Uttar Pradesh 1 Revati Raman Singh Urf Mani 2 Sukhram Singh 3 Syed Zafar Islam 4 Vishambhar Prasad Nishad 5 Kapil Sibbal 6 Ashok Siddharth 7 Jay Prakash 8 Shiv Pratap 9 Satish Chandra Misra 10 Sanjay Seth 11 Surendra Singh Nagar Uttarakhand 1 Pradeep Tamta Bihar 1 Gopal Narayan Singh 07.07.2022 2 Satish Chandra Dubey 3 Misha Bharti 4 Ramchandra Prasad Singh 5 Sharad Yadav (Vacant w.e.f04.12.2017) Jharkhand 1 Mahesh Poddar 2 Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Haryana 1 Dushyant Gautam 01.08.2022 2 Subash Chandra
2. Now, the Commission has decidedto conduct biennial elections to the Council of States from above mentioned States in accordance with the following programme:
Sl. No. Events Dates Issue of Notifications 24th May, 2022 (Tuesday) Last date of making nominations 31st May, 2022 (Tuesday) Scrutiny of nominations 01st June, 2022 (Wednesday) Last date for withdrawal of candidatures 03rd June, 2022 (Friday) Date of Poll 10th June, 2022 (Friday) Hours of Poll 09:00 am- 04:00 pm Counting of Votes 10th June, 2022 (Friday) at 05:00 pm Date before which election shall be completed 13th June, 2022 (Monday)
4. 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.
5. Adequate measures for close monitoring of the election process by appointing observers shall be taken to ensure free and fair election.
6. Broad Guidelines of Covid-19 issued by ECI as contained in para 06 of Press Note, dated 02.05.2022, available at link https://eci.gov.in/files/file/14151-schedule-for-bye-election-in-3-assembly-constituencies-of-odisha-kerala-and-uttarakhand%E2%80%93-reg/to be followed, wherever applicable, during entire election process by all persons.
7. The 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 conduct of the elections.
