EC releases calender of events for RS polls

Friday, March 10, 2006, 21:33 [IST]

Bangalore, Mar 10 (UNI) The Election Commission (EC) today released the calender of events for the biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha to fill up four vacancies by the elected members of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly.

An EC notification here said the candidates could submit their nominations at the Assembly till March 17 and the last date for withdrawal of candidature was March 20.

The nominations would be taken up for scrutiny on March 18. The elections would be held on March 28 and counting of votes taken up on the same day.

The elections were necessitated following the term of four members from Karnataka--Rahman Khan, K B Krishnamurthy and Bimba Raikar (all Congress) and M V Rajashekhara Murthy (BJP)--coming to an end.

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