Bye-poll for lone Rajya Sabha seat from Tripura on Sept 22

By  Firstdespatch Desk   Aug 31, 2022

Agartala, Aug 31 (FD) Bye-election for the lone Rajya Sabha seat in Tripura, which was felt vacant following resignation of Dr Manik Saha, will be held on September 22 next.  

Election Commission of India (ECI) issued a letter to the state government on Wednesday in this regard.

Dr Saha who became the Rajya Sabha member from BJP ticket had to resign from the position since he became Chief Minister of the state following resignation of Biplab Kumar Deb from the position.

According to a press note released by ECI, notification will be issued on September 5 (Monday) and the last date of nomination will be September 12 (Monday).

The nominations will be scrutinized on September 13 (Tuesday) while last day for withdrawal of the nomination will be September 15.

The election will be held from 9 am to 4 pm on September 22 and counting will be done on the same day at 5 pm.

The entire process will end on September 26.

The ECI took special note of the Covid related cautions and asked the Chief Secretary to depute a senior officer ensure all Covid protocols and arrangements are put in place while making arrangements for conducting the polls.

It is not yet clear as to whether Congress and Left Front came to support each other with some sort of understanding in the Rajya Sabha elections which can be termed as the prelude to the next assembly polls. FD PD JK