India, Sept. 22 -- The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday announced the schedule for biennial elections to 11 Rajya Sabha seats from Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand along with a by-election to one seat from West Bengal.

Ten seats from Uttar Pradesh and one from Uttarakhand will fall vacant when the incumbents' six-year terms expire on November 25.

Samajwadi Party leader Ram Gopal Yadav and Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri, the BJP's Arun Singh, Geeta Shakya, Neeraj Shekhar, Brij Lal, and Seema Dwiwedi, the BSP's Ramji Gautam, and Union minister of state Banwari Lal Verma are the outgoing Rajya Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh. One seat, previously held by the BJP's Dinesh Sharma, already fell vacant on September 11.

In Uttara...