Press Note: Notification of Presidential Election, 2012
By
a Notification published in the Gazette of India Extraordinary today (the 16th
of June, 2012), the Election
Commission has fixed the following schedule for the Presidential Election,
2012:-
(a)
June 30, 2012, as the last date for making nominations;
(b)
July 2, 2012, as the date for the scrutiny of nominations;
(c)
July 4, 2012, as the last date for the withdrawal of candidates; and
(d)
July 19, 2012, as the date on which a poll shall, if necessary, be taken.
By another Notification issued on the
14th of June, 2012, the Commission has appointed Dr. V.K. Agnihotri, Secretary-Gneral, Rajya Sabha, as the Returning
Officer for the Presidential Election, 2012 and Shri
S.K. Ganguli, Joint Secretary and Shri
Deepak Goyal, Joint Secretary, Rajya
Sabha Secretariat, as the assistant Returning
Officers.
As required under rule 3 of the
Presidential and Vice-Presidential Elections Rules, 1974, the Returning Officer
has by a Public Notice notified today, the 16th of June, 2012 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 S.K. Ganguli,
Joint Secretary/Shri Deepak Goyal,
Joint Secretary, Rajya Sabha
Secretariat at the said office between 11 A.M. and 3.P.M. on any day (other
than a public holiday) but not later than the 30th of June, 2012;
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 Monday, the 2nd of July, 2012
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 authorized in this behalf in writing by the
vii.
candidate, to
the undersigned at the place specified in paragraph (i) above before three o’
clock in the afternoon of the 4th of July, 2012;
viii.
in the event of the election being contested, the poll
will be taken on Thursday, the 19th of July, 2012 between the hours
of 10 A.M. and 5 P.M. at the places of polling fixed under the rules.
Arrangements have also been made for
simultaneous publication of these Notifications and the Public Notice issued by
the Returning Officer in all the States/Union Territories Gazettes.
For any queries regarding the
election process, Dr. V.K. Agnihotri, the Returning
Officer for the Presidential Election, 2012 and the Secretary-General, Rajya Sabha may be contacted in
his office (Room No. 29, Ground Floor, Parliament House, New Delhi) between
3.30 P.M. and 4.30 P.M. on all working days including Saturdays falling within
the period of filing of Nomination Papers, i.e. 16th, 23rd
and 30th June, 2012 (other than public holidays).
Office
of the Returning officer for Presidential Election 2012 and Secretary-General, Rajya Sabha
New
Delhi, 16 June, 2012
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