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National Times Bureau, July 25: In a key step toward the conduct of the Vice-Presidential election, the Election Commission on Thursday appointed the Rajya Sabha Secretary General as the Returning Officer for the upcoming poll. The move marks the formal initiation of the election process, which is expected to take place during the ongoing Monsoon Session of Parliament.Alongside the appointment of the Returning Officer, two senior officials from the Rajya Sabha Secretariat Garima Jain, Joint Secretary, and Vijay Kumar, Director have been named as Assistant Returning Officers. The gazette notification announcing the official schedule of the election is slated to…