Hindi version

RAJYA SABHA SECRETARIAT

PUBLIC NOTICE

OF

ELECTION TO THE OFFICE OF VICE-PRESIDENT OF INDIA

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TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE EXTRAORDINARY ISSUE OF THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, PART II, SECTION 3 (III) DATED                             THE 9TH JULY, 2007

 
 
WHEREAS a notification 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, Yogendra Narain, the Returning Officer for such election, do hereby give notice that—

(i)  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.29, Ground Floor, Parliament House, New Delhi, or if he is unavoidably absent, to the Assistant Returning Officers,                    Shri N.C. Joshi, Additional Secretary/Shri Ravi Kant Chopra, Joint Secretary and Financial Advisor, Rajya 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 23rd July, 2007;

(ii)  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;

(iii)  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;

(iv)  forms of nomination papers may be obtained from the above said office at the time aforesaid;

(v)  the nomination papers, other than those rejected under sub-section (4) of section 5B of the Act, will be taken up for scrutiny at the said office in Room No.29, Ground Floor, Parliament House, New Delhi on Tuesday, the 24th July, 2007 at 11 A.M.;

(vi)  the notice of withdrawal of candidatures may be delivered by a candidate, or any one of his proposers or seconders who has been authorised 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  26th July, 2007;

(vii)  in the event of the election being contested, the poll will be taken on Friday, the 10th August, 2007 between the hours of 10 A.M. and 5 P.M. at the place of polling fixed under the rules.

 

 

 

New Delhi

 (YOGENDRA NARAIN)
SECRETARY-GENERAL, RAJYA SABHA AND RETURNING OFFICER FOR THE ELECTION OF VICE-PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, 2007
9th July, 2007