New Delhi: The Election Commission of India on Thursday announced that bypolls for two Rajya Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh and Kerala will be held on August 24.
The bypolls were necessitated following the death of Beni Prasad Verma from UP and M P Veerendra Kumar from Kerala earlier this year. While the term of Verma was till July 2022, Kumar's term was to end in April 2022.
Along with this, the commission also said by-election to fill one casual vacancy, caused by the resignation of the ruling YSR Congress member Mopidevi Venkata Ramana Rao on July 1, will be held on the same day.
The notification for the bypolls will be issued on August 6 and the election will be held on August 24. As per established practice, the counting of votes will be held on the same evening.
The commission in its statement had said that Chief Secretaries shall depute senior officer from the state to ensure that the instructions regarding COVID-19 containment measures are compiled with while making arrangements for conducting elections.
The voting for 24 Rajya Sabha seats across 10 states was held on June 20. Most of the elections were deferred because of the coronavirus pandemic. Elections were held for four seats each in Karnataka, Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh, three each in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, two in Jharkhand and once each in Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya and Manipur.
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