Elections will likely be held tomorrow to fill 57 Rajya Sabha seats from 15 states, with the Akali Dal prone to lose presence within the higher home and the BJP’s tally to stay under 100 after touching the milestone lately. The Congress, reeling beneath ballot debacles, is prone to lose a few seats.
The elections had been introduced to the seats which can be falling vacant as a result of retirement of members on totally different dates between June and August.
Prominent amongst these retiring are Union ministers Piyush Goyal and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Congress leaders Ambika Soni, Jairam Ramesh and Kapil Sibal, and BSP’s Satish Chandra Misra.
According to established apply, counting will happen an hour after the conclusion of polling. Most of the brand new members who get elected are prone to vote within the President’s election, due someday in July.
While 11 seats are falling vacant in Uttar Pradesh, six members every are retiring from Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra, 5 from Bihar and 4 every from Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan and Karnataka.
Three members every from Madhya Pradesh and Odisha, two every from Telangana, Chhattisgarh, Punjab Jharkhand and Haryana, and one from Uttarakhand are additionally retiring.
With 41 out of the 57 new members already elected unopposed, the competition has closed in to 16 seats in 4 states — Maharashtra, Karnataka, Haryana and Rajasthan.
Two elements are set to make the competition between the BJP and the Congress within the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections extra intense. One is the discontent throughout the Congress ranks over the occasion fielding “outsiders”, which has given the BJP a way of alternative and the opposite is the entry of two media barons — Subhash Chandra and Kartikeya Sharma — each backed by the saffron occasion.
Chandra and Sharma’s entry have made the competition powerful for the Congress in Rajasthan and Haryana respectively. Meanwhile, a Mumbai court docket’s denial of bail to jailed Maharashtra ministers Nawab Malik and Anil Desmukh has lowered the MVA authorities’s head depend towards the saffron occasion.
The concern of cross-voting, horse-trading prices between the 2 events have prompted each the BJP and the Congress to shift their MLAs to resorts, of their last-minute bid to maintain the flock intact.
The BJP is ready to endure losses in Andhra Pradesh, the place it has three outgoing members, Jharkhand and Rajasthan however is hopeful of constructing up for it in states like Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
The Akali Dal’s lone member from Punjab Balwinder Singh Bhunder and Congress’ Ambika Soni are prone to make means for members from the Aam Aadmi Party whose big energy within the meeting will be certain that it wins each seats.
Five BJP MPs are among the many 11 retiring Rajya Sabha members from UP, and the occasion together with its allies is able to win eight seats, whereas the opposition Samajwadi Party could retain its tally of three.
In Maharashtra, the ruling coalition Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress coalition has the energy to make sure its victory in all of the three seats it holds, whereas the BJP can comfortably win two of its three seats.
The elections are additionally prone to see the BSP’s presence within the higher home lowering to a mere one.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”