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Rajya Sabha Election Dates 2017 Gujarat Madhya Pradesh West Bengal Goa Schedule Live Voting
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Rajya Sabha Election Dates 2017
- The Election Commission on Monday cancelled elections to 10 Rajya Sabha seats scheduled to be held on June 8, citing a clash with the presidential poll due in July and the EVM challenge beginning on June 3.A brief statement from the EC said it has decided to "withdraw" the press note of May 16 announcing the elections to Rajya Sabha seats from Goa, Gujarat and West Bengal.
- Out of the 10 retiring members, four are from Trinamool Congress, three from Congress, two from BJP and one from the CPM.
- While the term of Shantaram Naik (Cong, Goa) is coming to an end on July 28, the retirement of Ahmed Patel (Cong), Dilipbhai Pandya (BJP) and Irani (BJP) - all from Gujarat - is due on August 18.
| The following members are scheduled to retire in 2017. | ||||
| Sr No | State | Retiring MP | Date of retirement | |
| 1 | Goa | Shantaram Naik | Congress | 28-Jul-17 |
| 2 | Gujarat | Smriti Irani | BJP | 18-Aug-17 |
| Dilip Pandya | ||||
| Ahmed Patel | Congress | |||
| 3 | West Bengal | Sukhendu Sekhar Roy | Trinamool Congress | 18-Aug-17 |
| Derek O'Brien | ||||
| Debabrata Bandyopadhyay | ||||
| Dola Sen | ||||
| Sitaram Yechury | CPI(M) | |||
| Pradip Bhattacharya | Congress | |||
- Apart From above,a casual vacancy in the Council of States from madhya pradesh has also arisen. The details are given as below:-
| S.No. | State | Name of Member | Cause of Vacancy | Term of office upto |
| 1 | Madhya Pradesh | Sh. Anil Madhav Dave | Death on 18.05.2017 | 29.06.2022 |
- The Election Commision has decided that the aforesaid Biennial Election to the Council Of States from the above states and a bye-election to council of states from Madhya pradesh shall be held in accordance with the following programme :-
| S. No. | Subject of Programme | Date and Days |
| 1 | Date of issue of Gazette Notification | 21/07/2017 |
| 2 | Last Date of Nomination | 28/07/2017 |
| 3 | Date of Scrutiny of Nomination | 29/07/2017 |
| 4 | Last date of withdrawl of candidatures | 31/07/2017 |
| 5 | Date of Poll | 08/08/2017 |
| 6 | Hours of poll | 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM |
| 7 | Date of counting | 08/08/2017 |
| 8 | Date before which election shall be completed | 11/08/2017 |
| State | Former MP | Party | Date of appointment | Resign Date | Elected MP | Date of appointment | Date of retirement |
| West Bengal | Mithun Chakraborty | AITC | 03-04-2014 | 29-12-2016 | Manish Gupta | 02-03-2017 | 02-04-2020 |
| Odisha | Bishnu Charan Das | BJD | 02-07-2016 | 21-03-2017 | Pratap Keshari Deb | 18-05-2017 | 01-07-2022 |
| Manipur | Haji Abdul Salam | INC | 10-04-2014 | 28-02-2017 | Bhabananda Singh | 25-05-2017 | 09-04-2020 |
| Madhya Pradesh | Anil Madhav Dave | BJP | 30-06-2016 | 18-05-2017 | Sampatiya Uike | 01-08-2017 | 29-06-2022 |
| Telangana | P. Govardhan Reddy | INC | 03-04-2012 | 09-06-2017 | TBD | TBD | 02-04-2018 |
| Uttar Pradesh | Mayawati | BSP | 03-04-2012 | 18-07-2017 | TBD | TBD | 02-04-2018 |