The Central Election Committee of the Bharatiya Janata Party met and finalised four names, including that of Bihar deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi, for the ensuing biennial elections to the State Legislative Council.
The Central Election Committee of the Bharatiya Janata Party met here on Tuesday and finalised four names, including that of Bihar deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi, for the ensuing biennial elections to the State Legislative Council.
Among those who attended the party's CEC meeting included BJP president Nitin Gadkari, Chairman of BJP Parliamentary Party LK Advani, Leader of Opposition (Lok Sabha) Sushma Swaraj and Leader of Opposition (Rajya Sabha) Arun Jaitley besides other Committee members.
Besides Modi, who was also elected as an MLC earlier, the other names finalised by the party include those of Mangal Pandey, Lal Babu Prasad and Satyendra Kushwah.
The terms of members of State Legislative Councils of Bihar expire on May 6 and the Election Commission has already started the process for filing of nominations after the issue of notification in this regard on April 9.
The last date of filing nominations for the biennial elections for Bihar Legislative Council is April 16 and after scrutiny the next day, the EC has fixed April 19 as the last date for withdrawal of candidatures.
While polling would be held between 9am to 4pm on April 26, counting would start at 5pm the same day and the whole election process has to be completed by April 30.
Bihar has 11 members elected to its state Legislative Council by the members of State Legislative Assemblies (by MLAs).
Among those MLCs from Bihar who are retiring on May 6 are Uday Narayan Rai, Chandan Bagchi, Tarakant Jha, Narendra Singh, Upendra Prasad, Nitish Kumar, Baleshwar Singh Bharti, Bhim Singh, Ramashraya Prasad Singh, Sushil Kumar Modi and Sanjay Singh.
Meanwhile, the process of filing nominations for Uttar Pradesh's State Legislative Council has also started with the issue of notification yesterday.
There are a total of 13 Uttar Pradesh MLCs who's terms are expiring on May 5 - Ashok Dhawan, Kashi Nath, Khwaza Haleem, Pradeep Kumar, Dayaram, Naresh Chandra Uttam, Babu Singh, Rampati Ram, Rakesh Singh Rana, Ram Naresh Rawat, Ram Sharan Das, Sunil Kumar and Harpal Saini.
The Election Commission has announced holding biennial elections to them as well on April 26. The last date of filing nominations is April 16 and after scrutiny the next day, the EC has fixed April 19 as the last date for withdrawal of candidatures.
Polling would be held between 9am to 4pm on April 26, while counting would start at 5pm the same day and the whole election process has to be completed by April 30.
Meanwhile, the Election Commission has also announced the schedule for bye-election to the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh to fill up the vacancy caused by the resignation of Rashid Masood.
The term of Masood, a former Samajwadi Party leader who resigned from his Rajya Sabha membership on March 9 after he joined Congress ahead of the state assembly elections, was to expire on July 4, 2016.
The Commission has on April 9 issued the notification to hold bye-election to the Council of States from Uttar Pradesh to fill up the vacancy and the last date for filing nominations is April 16 and scrutiny the next day.
The last date for withdrawal of candidature has been fixed for April 19 and polling will be held between on April 26.
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