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Nomination for the lone Rajya Sabha seat from Odisha began

Bhubaneswar:8/5/17; Nomination for the lone Rajya Sabha seat from Odisha began today following a notification issued by the State Election Commission in this regard.

“We have pasted the EC notification in our notice board. Nomination for the lone Rajya Sabha seat will continue till May 15. District collectors have also been told to display the notification in their offices,” Odisha Assembly secretary Amiya Kumar Sarangi said.

Scrutiny of nomination papers will be held on May 16 and candidates can withdraw their papers by May 18.

The Rajya Sabha election in Odisha is required after Bishnu Charan Das of BJD resigned from the House on March 21 following his appointment as deputy chairman of Odisha State Planning Board. Otherwise his term of office would have ended on July 1, 2022.

 

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