Bye-election to the Council of States from Jharkhand

Bye-election to the Council of States from Jharkhand

There is a casual vacancy in the Council of States from Jharkhand. The details are given as below:-

Sl. No.	Name of Member	Date of retirement	Remarks
1	Dr. Kanwar Deep Singh	7^th July, 2016	Resigned on 19^th February, 2014

Bye-election to the Council of States from the State of Jharkhand could not be conducted earlier to fill up the above mentioned casual vacancy due to the pendency of Election Petition No. 12 of 2010 (Sh. Baidyanath Ram Vs. Sh. Kanwar Deep Singh and others) before the Hon’ble High Court of Jharkhand at Ranchi.

Now, the High Court has dismissed the said petition vide its order dated 30^th April, 2015.

The Commission has decided to hold the bye-election to the Council of States from Jharkhand to fill up the above said vacancy in accordance with the following programme: -

Sl.No.	Events	Dates and Days
1.	Issue of Notification	15^th June, 2015 (Monday)
2.	Last Date of making nominations	22^nd June, 2015 (Monday)
3.	Scrutiny of nominations	23^rd June, 2015 (Tuesday)
4.	Last date for withdrawal of candidatures	25^th June, 2015 (Thursday)
5.	Date of Poll	2^nd July, 2015 (Thursday)
6.	Hours of Poll	9.00 A.M. to 4.00 P.M
7.	Counting of Votes	2^nd July, 2015 (Thursday) at 5.00 PM
8.	Date before which election shall be completed	4^th July, 2015 (Saturday)