Bye-election to one seat in K’taka Legislative Council announced

Team Udayavani, Jan 28, 2020, 12:59 PM IST

Bengaluru: The Election Commission has announced bye-election to one seat in the Karnataka Legislative Council by the members of Legislative Assembly on Monday, January 27.

The election is will be held on February 17 between 9 am and 4 pm and the counting of votes will be held on on the same day at 5 pm.

According to the EC, the term of Rizwan Arshad will end on June 14, 2022. However, the seat got vacant as he was elected to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly on December 9 last year.

The issue of notifications will begin on January 30 and the last date of filing notifications will be on February 6.

According to the EC, the scrutiny of nominations will be held on February 7 and the candidates will be allowed to withdraw their candidatures till February 10.