Bye Elections to the Council of States from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar

There are two casual vacancies in the Council of States each from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar as detailed below:

State	Name of Members	Reason	Date of vacancy	Term Up to
UttarPradesh	Arun Jaitley	Death	24.08.2019	02.04.2024
Bihar	Jethmalani Ram Boolchand	Death	08.09.2019	07.07.2022

The Commission has decided to hold bye-elections to the Council of States from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar to fill up the above said vacancies in accordance with the following schedule for each of the vacancies –

Sl.No.	Events	Dates and Days
1.	Issue of Notifications	27th September, 2019 (Friday)
2.	Last Date of making nominations	4th October, 2019 ( Friday)
3.	Scrutiny of nominations	5th October, 2019 (Saturday)
4.	Last date for withdrawal of candidatures	9th October, 2019 (Wednesday)
5.	Date of Poll	16th October, 2019 (Wednesday)
6.	Hours of Poll	9:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m.
7.	Counting of Votes	16th October, 2019 (Wednesday) at 5.00 p.m.
8.	Date before which election shall be completed	18th October, 2019 (Friday)