There are two casual vacancies in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council by the Members of Legislative Assembly. The details of the vacancies are as follows:

 

Name of Member	Nature of election	Cause of vacancy	Term up to
Sri Laxman Prasad “Acharya”	By MLAs	Resignation on  15th February, 2023	30th January, 2027
Sri Banwari Lal	By MLAs	Death on 15th February, 2023	06th July, 2028

 

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	11th May, 2023 (Thursday)
	Last Date of making nominations	18th May, 2023 (Thursday)
	Scrutiny of nominations	19th May, 2023 (Friday)
	Last date for withdrawal of candidatures	22nd May, 2023 (Monday)
	Date of Poll	29th May, 2023 (Monday)
	Hours of Poll	09:00 am - 04:00 pm
	Counting of Votes	29th May, 2023 (Monday) at 05:00 pm
	Date before which election shall be completed	31st May, 2023 (Wednesday)

                                               

3.     Broad Guidelines of Covid-19 issued by ECI as contained in para 32 of Press Note, dated 29^th March, 2023, available at link https://eci.gov.in/files/file/14863-general-election-to-legislative-assembly-of-karnataka-2023/  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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