Notice for Election to the President of India भारत के राष्ट्रपति के चुनाव के लिए सूचना : Election Commission of India

Notice for Election to the President of India भारत के राष्ट्रपति के चुनाव के लिए सूचना : Election Commission of India

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY SECRETARIAT

Delhi, the 15th June, 2022

No. F.   20/6/President/2021/LAS-VII/Leg./8690.—The following   is   published   for   general information:—

ELECTION COMMISSION OF INDIA

(Election to the Office of President of India, 2022) PUBLIC NOTICE

New Delhi, the 15th June, 2022

FORM 1

(See rule 3 of the Presidential and Vice-Presidential Elections Rules, 1974)

PUBLIC NOTICE OF

ELECTION TO THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT OF INDIA

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 President of India has been issued by the Election Commission, I, P.C. Mody, 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 Mukul Pande, Officer on Special Duty (OSD)/Shri Surendra Kumar Tripathi, Joint Secretary and Chief Vigilance  Officer,  Rajya  Sabha  Secretariat    at  the  said  office  between  11.00  A.M.  and 3.00 P.M. on any day (other than a public holiday) not later than the 29th of June, 2022;

(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 Committee Room No.62, First Floor, Parliament House, New Delhi on Thursday, the 30th of June, 2022  at 11.00 A.M.;

(vi) the notice of withdrawal of candidatures may be delivered bya 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 2nd of July, 2022;

(vii) in the event of the  election  being  contested,  the  poll  will  be  taken  on  Monday,  the 18th of July, 2022 between hours of 10.00 A.M. and 5.00 P.M. at the places of polling fixed under the rules.

New Delhi :
Dated: the 15th of June, 2022