EC issues notification for election to the office of Vice-President of India

The Election Commission (EC) has issued a notification for the holding of an election to fill the office of Vice-President of India.

The Election Commission has appointed the following dates for the Vice-Presidential Election:

1. the 19^th July, 2022 (Tuesday), as the last date for making nominations;
2. the 20^th July, 2022, (Wednesday), as the date for scrutiny of nominations;
3. the 22^nd July, 2022, (Friday), as the last date for the withdrawal of candidatures; and
4. the 6^th August, 2022, (Saturday), as the date on which  a poll shall, if necessary, by taken.

The notification is issued under sub-section (1) of section 4 of the Presidential and Vice-Presidential Elections Act, 1952, for the holding of an election to fill the office of Vice-President of India has been issued by the Election Commission, I, Utpal Kumar Singh, the Returning Officer for such election.

The nomination papers may be delivered by a candidate or any one of his proposers or seconders to the undersigned at his office in Room No. 18, Ground Floor, Parliament House, New Delhi, or if he is unavoidably absent, to the Assistant Returning Officers, P. C. Tripathy, Joint Secretary, Lok Sabha Secretariat or Raju Srivastava, Director, Lok Sabha Secretariat at the said office between 11 A.M. and 3 P.M. on any day (other than a public holiday) not later than the 19^th July, 2022.

Each nomination paper shall be accompanied by a certified copy of the entry relating to the candidate in the electoral roll for the Parliamentary constituency in which the candidate is registered as an elector.

 Every candidate shall deposit or cause to be deposited a sum of rupees fifteen thousand only.

This amount may be deposited in cash with the Returning Officer at the time of presentation of the nomination paper or deposited earlier in the Reserve Bank of India or in a Government Treasury and in the latter case a receipt showing that the said deposit of the sum has been so made is required to be enclosed with the nomination paper.

Forms of nomination papers may be obtained from the above said office at the times aforesaid.

The nomination papers, other than those rejected under sub-section (4) of section 5B of the Act, will be taken up for scrutiny on Wednesday, the 20^th July, 2022 at 11 A.M.

The notice of withdrawal of candidatures may be delivered by a candidate, or any one of his proposers or seconders who has been authorized in this behalf in writing by the candidate, to the undersigned at the place specified in paragraph (i) above  before three o’clock in the afternoon of 22^nd July, 2022, the official note Election Commission on Tuesday said.

In the event of the election being contested, the poll will be taken on Saturday, the 6^th August, 2022 between the hours of 10 A.M. and 5 P.M. at the place of polling fixed under the rules.