Polls for 11 Rajya Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand on November 9

The polling to fill in 11 vacancies in the Rajya Sabha from Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh will be held on November 9, the Election Commission stated on Tuesday.

The vacancies will be created on November 25, when 10 Rajya Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh and one from Uttarakhand will retire.

The retiring MPs from Uttar Pradesh include union civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri, Ram Gopal Yadav of the Samajwadi Party and P L Punia of the Congress.

The Congress’s Raj Babbar, who was elected to the Rajya Sabha from Uttarakhand, will also retire on November 25.

The EC stated that the notification for the polling would be issued on October 20 while the deadlines for filing and withdrawing nomination had been set as October 27 and November 2.

The poll-panel added that every person would put on masks during all activities related to the elections in view of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Besides, body temperatures of all persons would be checked at the entrance of the halls or rooms used for polling or pre-polling activities related to elections, apart from sanitization.