EC Announces Election In 12 Seats Across 9 States On September 3. Check Details

The Election Commission of India has announced elections for 12 vacant Rajya Sabha seats across nine states, including Assam, Bihar, and Maharashtra.

The Election Commission of India on Wednesday released notification for the 12 vacant seats of Rajya Sabha, for which the election will be held on September 3.

Two 12 vacant seats are spread across 9 states, including two seats each in Assam, Bihar and Maharashtra and one seat each in Haryana, Rajasthan, Tripura, Telangana and Odisha.

The notification for the Rajya Sabha elections will be issued on August 14 and the last date for filing of poll papers is August 21, the EC said. The last date for withdrawal of nominations for the seats is August 26 and 27. The separate elections for each Rajya Sabha seat will be held on September 3 from 9 am to 4 pm. The counting of votes will be held on the same day from 5 pm onwards. 

The ten Rajya Sabha seats fell vacant as the sitting members, including Union Ministers Piyush Goyal, Sarbananda Sonowal and Jyotiraditya Scindia, were elected to the Lok Sabha in June. Bypolls are also being held for two seats in Telangana and Odisha.

K Keshava Rao from Telangana resigned recently from the House after quitting the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) to join the Congress while Biju Janata Dal (BJD) MP Mamata Mohanta resigned from her Rajya Sabha seat and primary membership of the party.

Besides Goyal, Sonowal and Scindia, the other Rajya Sabha members who won the Lok Sabha polls are Kamakhya Prasad Tasa (BJP), Misha Bharti (RJD), Vivek Thakur (BJP), Deepender Singh Hooda (Congress), Udayanraje Bhosle (BJP), K C Venugopal (Congress) and Biplab Kumar Deb (BJP).