About:
- The Chief Election Commissioner accompanied by other Election Commissioners met the President of India.
- They submitted him a copy of the Notification issued by the ECI in terms of Section 73 of the Representation of People’s Act, 1951, containing the names of Members elected to the House of the People following General Elections to the 17th Lok Sabha.
Section 73 of the Representation of People’s Act, 1951:
- Title of section 73: Publication of results of general elections to the House of the people and of names of persons nominated by the President.
- Key features:
- Where a general election is held for the purpose of constituting a new House of the People or a new State Legislative Assembly, the names of the members elected for those constituencies shall be notified by the Election Commission in the Official Gazette.
- This notification shall be done soon after the results of the elections in all the constituencies have been declared by the returning officer.
- Upon the issue of such notification, that House or Assembly shall be deemed to be duly constituted.
