Election Commission

Bye Election to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council by the members of Legislative Assembly (MLAs)   - Polling on 6th July 2020

Posted On: 15 JUN 2020 2:39PM by PIB Delhi

There is one casual vacancy in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council by the members of Legislative Assembly. The details of the vacancy are as follow:

 

Name of Member

Nature of election

Cause of vacancy

Term up to

Sri Dokka Manikya Vara Prasad

By MLAs

Resignation on 09.03.2020

29.03.2023

The Commission, after receiving inputs from CEO, Andhra Pradesh, has decided to hold a bye-election to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council by the members of the Legislative Assembly to fill the above mentioned vacancyas per the following schedule: -

 

S.No.

Events

Dates

  1.  

Issue of Notifications

18th June, 2020 (Thursday)

  1.  

Last Date of making nominations

25th June, 2020 (Thursday)

  1.  

Scrutiny of nominations

26th June, 2020 (Friday)

  1.  

Last date for withdrawal of candidatures

29th June, 2020 (Monday)

  1.  

Date of Poll

06th July, 2020 (Monday)

  1.  

Hours of Poll

09:00 am-04:00 pm

  1.  

Counting of Votes

06th July, 2020 (Monday) at 05:00 pm

  1.  

Date before which election shall be completed

08th July, 2020 (Wednesday)

                                                                       

            Adequate measures for close monitoring of the election process by appointing observers shall be taken to ensure free and fair election.

            Commission has also directed the Chief Secretary of the State 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 elections.

 

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