Rajya Sabha biennial polls for 11 seats on October 16
Biennial elections to 11 Rajya Sabha seats will be held on October 16, the Election Commission has announced, with nominations having closed on October 6.
Ten of the seats fall in Uttar Pradesh and one in Uttarakhand. Polling will take place from 9 am to 4 pm, with counting of votes on the same day. The election process is to be completed by October 19.
The ECI issued the notification for the polls on September 29. Scrutiny of nomination papers was completed on October 7, and candidates have until October 9 to withdraw.
Separately, the Commission has announced a by-election to a West Bengal Rajya Sabha seat left vacant by the resignation of Rukmini Mallik.
The Bharatiya Janata Party has named eight candidates for the Uttar Pradesh seats. They are Dharampal Singh, Radhakant Ojha, Prakash Pal, Vidyasagar Sonkar, Gopi Krishna Pandey, Priyanka Singh Rawat, Ram Pratap Singh Chauhan and Shruti Gangwar. Notably, Hardeep Puri and B L Verma were not renominated. The Samajwadi Party has fielded Ramgopal Yadav and Dhanraj Parimal Nathwani for the remaining two UP seats.
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