The Election Commission has issued notification for the election of the 16th President of India. Nominations can be filed by the candidates till 29th of this month.
The poll for the Presidential Election will be held on 18th of next month and counting will take place on 21st of July. The term of office of President Ram Nath Kovind is ending on 24th of July.
The Presidential election will be held by secret ballot in accordance with system of proportional representation as per the Constitution.
The President is elected by an electoral college comprising elected members of Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha and State Legislative Assemblies. It also includes the Legislative Assemblies of Delhi and Puducherry.
Polling will be held in the Parliament House and the premises of the State Legislative Assemblies.
The total number of electors will be four thousand 809 including 776 Members of Parliament and four thousand thirty-three Members of Legislative Assemblies.
The notification :
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 –
- 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- Forms of nomination papers may be obtained from the above said office at the time aforesaid;
- 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.;
- 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 candidate, to the undersigned at the place specified in paragraph (i) above before three o’clock in the afternoon of 2nd July, 2022;
- 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.
