Biennial elections to fill 6 RS seats from TN Assembly on Mar 16

Chennai, Feb. 18 -- The Biennial elections to fill six seats that would fall vacant from the TamilNadu Assembly in April, would be held on March 16.

The elections would be held to fill the seats of 37 members elected from 10 States, whose termof office was due to expire in April.

Of the six members from Tamil Nadu, four of them were from the DMK and one each from theAIADMK and its ally, the Tamil Maanila Congress (TMC).

The term of six Rajya Sabha members from Tamil Nadu which would expire in April are N R Elango,P Selvarasu, Trichy N Siva and Dr Kanikozhi NVN Somu (all DMK), M Thambidurai (AIADMK)and G K Vasan (TMC).

Announcing the poll schedule, the Election Commission of India on Wednesday said the filing ofnominations would begin on...