ECI announces poll schedule for 12 UP Legislative Council seats

LUCKNOW: The Election Commission of India has released the poll schedule for the elections to be held for 12 seats of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council, which would fall vacant on January 30, 2015 following the completion of the tenure of the incumbent MLCs. According to Ramakant Pandey, additional chief electoral officer, the notification of the elections would be issued on January 6, while the last date for withdrawal of nomination would be January 13.

Scrutiny of nomination forms would take place on January 14, while the last date to withdraw the candidature is January 16. Voting would take place on January 23 from 9.00 am to 4.00 pm. Counting of votes would also be held on the same day at 5.00 pm. The last date by which the poll process would be over is January 27, 2015.

Twelve members - seven from BSP, three from ruling SP and two from the BJP - are retiring on January 30. The BSP MLCs whose term would come to an end on January 30, 2015 are senior party leader Naseemuddin Siddiqui, Ashok Kumar Siddhartha, Om Prakash Tripathi, Dharm Prakash Bhartiya, Pratap Singh Baghel, Mahesh Arya and Lokesh Prajapati. The SP MLCs who are retiring are Ahmad Hasan, Ramesh Yadav and Dr Sarojini Agarwal. The BJP MLCs, whose term is ending on January 30 are Babu Ram M Com and Vinod Pandey.

Principal opposition Bahujan Samaj Party has 59 members, while Samajwadi Party has 21 members in the 100-member upper house of the UP legislature. BJP has seven, Congress two and RLD has one member in the House. Nine MLCs represent the apolitical teachers' quota and four belong to the independent group, while while two seats are vacant.

Meanwhile, two independent candidates have filed their nomination for the bye-elections to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council from Kanpur division graduates' constituency, taking the total number of candidates to 9. As per the schedule released by the Election Commission of India, the last date for filing nominations is January 2, 2015. Scrutiny of nominations would be held on January 3 and the last date to withdraw the candidature is January 5. Voting would be held on January 19 from 8.00 am to 4.00 pm, while counting of votes would be done January 22. All the processes pertaining to the bye-election would be completed by January 27. The bye-election has been necessitated following the demise of sitting MLC Jogendra Swaroop.

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