The term of office of 10 members of Legislative Councils of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana elected by the Members of respective Legislative Assemblies (MLAs) is due to expire on their retirement on 29.03.2023 as per the following details: -

ANDHRA PRADESH

S. No	Name of Member	Date of Retirement
1.	Challa Bhageerath Reddy (Vacant w.e.f. 02.11.2022)	29.03.2023
	Nara Lokesh
	Pothula Suneetha
	Batchula Arjunudu
	Dokka Manikya Varaprasada Rao
	Varaha Venkata Suryanarayana Raju Penumatsa
	Gangula Prabhakar Reddy

 

TELANGANA

	Alimineti Krishna Reddy	29.03.2023
	Gangadhar Goud Vullolla
	Naveen Kumar Kurmaiahgari

 

2.         The Commission has decided to conduct above mentioned biennial elections to the Andhra Pradesh and Telangana Legislative Councils by Members of respective Legislative Assemblies in accordance with the following programme: -

S. No.	Events	Dates
	Issue of Notification	06th March, 2023 (Monday)
	Last Date of making nominations	13th March, 2023 (Monday)
	Scrutiny of nominations	14th March, 2023 (Tuesday)
	Last date for withdrawal of candidatures	16th March, 2023 (Thursday)
	Date of Poll	23rd March, 2023 (Thursday)
	Hours of Poll	09:00 am- 04:00 pm
	Counting of Votes	23rd March, 2023 (Thursday) at 05:00 pm
	Date before which election shall be completed	25th March, 2023 (Saturday)

 

3.         Broad Guidelines of Covid-19 issued by ECI as contained in para 33 of Press Note, dated 03.11.2022, available at link   https://eci.gov.in/files/file/14534-general-election-to-legislative-assembly-of-gujarat-2022-reg/  to be followed, wherever applicable, during entire election process by all persons.

4.         The Chief Secretaries of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are being directed to depute a senior officer from the concerned State to ensure that the extant instructions regarding COVID-19 containment measures are complied with while making arrangements for conducting the elections.

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AM/RP

(Release ID: 1902845)