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 20th February, 2022	30th January, 2027
Sri Thakur Jaiveer Singh	By MLAs	Resignation on 24th March, 2022	05th 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	25thJuly, 2022 (Monday)
	Last Date of making nominations	01st August, 2022 (Monday)
	Scrutiny of nominations	02nd August, 2022 (Tuesday)
	Last date for withdrawal of candidatures	04thAugust, 2022 (Thursday)
	Date of Poll	11th August, 2022 (Thursday)
	Hours of Poll	09:00 am- 04:00 pm
	Counting of Votes	11th August, 2022 (Thursday) at 05:00 pm
	Date before which election shall be completed	16th 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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