ELECTION COMMISSION OF Nirvachan Sadan, Ashoka Road, New Delhi - 110 001

No. ECI/PN/2/2014 Dated: 13th January, 2014

PRESS NOTE

Subject: Biennial Elections to the Council of States () -2014.

The term of office of 55 members of the Council of States (Rajya Sabha) are to expire in between 02/04/2014 to 12/04/2014. The details are as under: - S.No. State No. of seats Date of vacancy 1 Maharashtra 7 02.04.2014 2 4 02.04.2014 3 Tamil Nadu 6 02.04.2014 4 West Bengal 5 02.04.2014 5 Andhra Pradesh 6 09.04.2014 6 Assam 3 09.04.2014 7 Bihar 5 09.04.2014 8 Chhattisgarh 2 09.04.2014 9 4 09.04.2014 10 Haryana 2 09.04.2014 11 1 09.04.2014 12 Jharkhand 2 09.04.2014 13 Madhya Pradesh 3 09.04.2014 14 Manipur 1 09.04.2014 15 Rajasthan 3 09.04.2014 16 Meghalaya 1 12.04.2014 TOTAL 55

A statement showing the details of the abovementioned vacancies is given in Appendix `A`. The Commission has decided that above mentioned Biennial Elections to the Council of States shall be held in accordance with the following programme:- Sl.No. Particular of events Date 1 Issue of Notification 21st January, 2014 (Tuesday) 2 Last date of making nominations 28th January, 2014 (Tuesday) 3 Scrutiny of nominations 29th January, 2014 (Wednesday) 4 Last date for withdrawal of candidatures 31st January, 2014 (Friday) 5 Date of poll 7th February, 2014 (Friday) 6 Hours of poll 9.00 A.M. to 4.00 P.M. 7 Counting of Votes 7th February, 2014 (Friday) at 5.00 P.M. 8 Date before which election shall be 10th February, 2014 (Monday) completed

(DHIRENDER OJHA) DIRECTOR Appendix - A

S.No Name of State Name of Member Date of Retirement

1. Dalwai Husain Umar 02.04.2014 2. Javadekar, Prakash Keshav 02.04.2014 3. Trivedi, Yogendra Prem Krishna 02.04.2014 4. MAHARASHTRA Deora, Murli Sitaram 02.04.2014 5. Dhoot, Rajkumar Nandlal 02.04.2014 6. Raut, Bharatkumar Bhavanishankar 02.04.2014 7. Waghmare, Janardhan Madhavrao 02.04.2014 8. Balbir Punj 02.04.2014 9. Mangala Kisan 02.04.2014 ODISHA 10. Rama Chandra Khuntia 02.04.2014 11. Renubala Pradhan 02.04.2014 12. S. Amir Ali Jinnah 02.04.2014 13. N. Balaganga 02.04.2014 14. T.K. Rangarajan 02.04.2014 TAMIL NADU 15. Vasanthi Stanley 02.04.2014 16. G.K. Vasan 02.04.2014 17. Jayanthi Natarajan 02.04.2014 18. Ahmed Saeed Malihabadi 02.04.2014 19. Tarini Kanta Roy 02.04.2014 20. WEST BENGAL Barun Mukherjee 02.04.2014 21. Prasanta Chatterjee 02.04.2014 22. Shyamal Chakraborty 02.04.2014 23. Tikkavarapu Subbarami Reddy 09.04.2014 24. Nandi Yellaiah 09.04.2014 25. ANDHRA Mohd Ali Khan 09.04.2014 26. PRADESH Ratna Bai, Tadapatla 09.04.2014 27. K.V.P. Ramachandra Rao 09.04.2014 28. Nandamuri Harikrishna 09.04.2014 29. Biswajit Daimary 09.04.2014 30. ASSAM Birendra Prasad Baishya 09.04.2014 31. Bhubaneshwar Kalita 09.04.2014 32. C.P. Thakur 09.04.2014 33. Shivanand Tiwari 09.04.2014 34. BIHAR Nand Kishore Singh 09.04.2014 35. Premchand Gupta 09.04.2014 36. Sabir Ali 09.04.2014 37. Motilal Vora 09.04.2014 CHHATTISGARH 38. Shivpratap Singh 09.04.2014 39. Kshatriya Alkaben Balrambhai 09.04.2014 40. Natuji Halaji Thakor 09.04.2014 GUJARAT 41. Parshottam Khodabhai Rupala 09.04.2014 42. Bharatsinh Prabhatsinh Parmar 09.04.2014 43. Ishwar Singh 09.04.2014 HARYANA 44. Dr. Ram Prakash 09.04.2014 45. HIMACHAL Shanta Kumar 09.04.2014 PRADESH 46. Jai Prakash Narayan Singh 09.04.2014 JHARKHAND 47. Parimal Nathwani 09.04.2014 48. Prabhat 09.04.2014 MADHYA 49. Maya Singh 09.04.2014 PRADESH 50. Raghunanadan Sharma 09.04.2014 51. MANIPUR Rishang Keishing 09.04.2014 52. Om Prakasha Mathur 09.04.2014 53. RAJASTHAN Dr. Gyan Prakash Pilania 09.04.2014 54. Dr. Prabha Thakur 09.04.2014 55. MEGHALAYA Wansuk Syiem 12.04.2014