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If any vacancy occurs due to the disablement, death, resignation, disqualification, absence without leave or removal or otherwise of Sarpanch or Upa-Sarpanch or other member, it shall be filled by nomination of another Sarpanch or Upa-Sarpanch or member, who shall hold office so long only as the Sarpanch , Upa-Sarpanch or member in whose place he has been nominated, would have held office if the vacancy had not occurred.