Rajya Sabha polls: maximum Seats fall, 11, in Uttar Pradesh.
New Delhi:
Elections will be held to fill 16 vacant seats in Rajya Sabha upper house of parliament, today. There were 41 candidates elected unopposed. The elections will be decisive in view of Presidential election date in July.
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Election date on 16 seats in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Rajasthan and Haryana.
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The 57 vacant seats were distributed across 15 states. Of these, the BJP held 23 seats, and the Congress held eight. The rest was divided among the other parties.
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the harshest contests is expected in Countries ruled by the opposition like Rajasthan and Maharashtra, where both sides have tied up their MLAs in resorts to prevent poaching.
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The maximum Seats fall, 11, in Uttar Pradesh. Followed by Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu with six seats each.
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Five seats each from Bihar, four each from Karnataka, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh, and three each from Madhya Pradesh and Odisha were also vacant.
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Besides, there are two seats each for Punjab, Jharkhand, Haryana, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and one seat of uttarakhand also vacant.
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prominent among them up for The polls are Union Ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal, Congressman Randeep Surjwala, Jeram Ramesh and Mukul Wasnik and Sanjay Raut of Shiv Sena.
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In Maharashtra – where polls for Rajya Sabha happens after two decades – the ruling coalition of Shiv Sena And Congress And NCP Of Sharad Pawar Ho in Limited space after they were not allowed to be released on bail for vote.
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The BJP managed to cross the 100 . mark in the above houseto become first party To do so since 1990. However, the elections are expected help It’s the beach up its next issue of Presidential election.
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Since 2017, when he was last Presidential elections were held, and Jammu and Kashmir came under the rule of the President. Three other states – Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Tamil Nadu – are under opposition control.
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