Gandhinagar, DeshGujarat: Polling for three seats of Rajya Sabha in Gujarat will take place on Thursday, June 8(if necessary or say if there are more than 3 candidates then polling will be needed).

The Election Commission of India has announced Rajya Sabha election programme for three seats of Rajya Sabha on Gujarat according to which notification will be issued on Monday, 22nd May while the last day of making nominations will be Monday, 29th May.

Scrutiny of nominations will take place on Tuesday 30th May. Last date for withdrawal of candidates will be Thursday 1st June.

Polling will take place on Thursday, 8th June during 9.00 am to 4.00 pm.

Counting of votes will take place on the same day at 5.00 pm.

The term of 3 members of the Rajya Sabha elected from Gujarat is due to expire on their retirement on 18 August this year.

The members are Patel Ahmed Mohammedbhai, Pandya Dilipbhai Shivshankarbhai and Irani Smriri Zubin.

Polling for one Rajya Sabha seat in Goa (Shantaram Naik) and 6 Rajya Sabha seats of West Bengal(Derek O’Brien, Debabrata Bandopadhyay, Pradip Bhattacharya, Sitaram Yechury, Sukhendusekhar Roy and Dola Sen) will also take place as per the same programme described above.

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