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ECI Sets Oct. 24 Rajya Sabha Polls to Fill Four Jammu & Kashmir Seats

The schedule follows the assembly’s return to restore the electorate lost after the 2019 reorganisation.

For all five seats, notifications will be issued on October 6, and the final date for submitting nominations is October 13.
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Overview

  • The four seats have been vacant since February 2021 after the terms of Ghulam Nabi Azad, Nazir Ahmed Laway, Mir Mohammad Fayaz and Shamsher Singh Manhas expired.
  • The Commission will conduct three separate biennial elections for these vacancies because they fall in different cycles, citing a 1994 Delhi High Court ruling.
  • Key dates: notifications on October 6, nominations by October 13, scrutiny on October 14, withdrawals by October 16, polling on October 24 from 9 am to 4 pm, and counting at 5 pm the same day.
  • The tenure of those elected will be subject to the outcome of a pending Supreme Court case, SLP(C) No. 17123/2015.
  • ECI outlined strict procedures including appointed observers and the use of only integrated violet-coloured sketch pens, with a simultaneous bypoll also set for one vacant Rajya Sabha seat in Punjab following Sanjeev Arora’s resignation.