Notification for the maiden Rajya Sabha seat from the State has been issued on Monday by the Election Commission of India (ECI). With the issuance of the notification nomination process for this seat has been also started. Election for the seat was necessitated because Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Faggan Singh Kulaste after getting elected to lok Sabha and resigned from upper house.
Madhya Pradesh Assembly’s Principal Secretary, Bhagwandev Israni, has been appointed as the Returning Officer and additional secretary AP Singh has been named as the Assistant Returning Officer.
The process for filing nominations for the by-poll started from Monday June 2 with Election Commission issuing a notification. During the period nominations could be filed daily from 10 am to 3 pm on all working days at the returning officer Rajya Sabha election 2014 committee room number 2, located in the State Assembly premises.
Israni said last date of filing nominations is June 9. Scrutiny will be done on June 10 by 2 pm and the last date for withdrawal is June
12, nominations could be withdrawn by 3 pm. If necessary, the election will be held on June 19, from 9 am to 4 pm and immediately after that counting would be done, and result would be declared, he said.
BJP may field Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar
or the Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for the lone Rajya Sabha seat in Madhya Pradesh, a source said.
By-election for the seat was announced by the Election Commission on Monday. “The seat will go to either Javadekar or Sitharaman,” a BJP leader told while talking to media persons. Both Javadekar and Sitharaman, at present are not members of either house of the Parliament.
The by-poll was necessitated by resignation of BJP’s Faggan Singh Kulaste from Rajya Sabha, after he won the lok Sabha election from Mandla.