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Biennial poll for 55 RS seats on Feb 7

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New Delhi: 55 Rajya Sabha seats in 16 states including the lone seat of Meghalaya are set to fall vacant in April for which biennial election will take place on February 7. According to the Election Commission, the term of 55 Rajya Sabha members is coming to an end between April 2 and 12. The tenure of Wansuk Syiem, the lone representative from Meghalaya in Rajya Sabha, will end in April. She filled the vacancy created by then Rajya Sabha member and NCP leader Thomas Sangma who unsuccessfully contested the last assembly polls.

While 7 seats are falling vacant in Maharashtra, six seats each are falling vacant in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.

Five seats each are falling vacant in West Bengal and Bihar, four each in Odisha and Gujarat, three each in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Assam, two each in Haryana, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand and one each in Manipur, Meghalaya and Himachal Pradesh.

Notification for the biennial polls will be issued on January 21 and nominations can be filed till January 28. Nomination papers will be scrutinised on January 29 and the last date of withdrawal is January 31.

Polling and counting of votes will take place on February 7, the EC said, adding that the election process would be concluded by February 10.

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