Tough NDA Vs INDIA Rajya Sabha battle on cards in Maharashtra & Haryana. Explained in 5 key points
Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), two by the Congress and one by the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD).Of the vacant seats, two each are in Assam, Bihar and Maharashtra and one each in Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Tripura. The Election Commission of India is yet to announce the poll dates for these Rajya Sabha seats. But clearly, it is going to be another interesting battle between the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and INDIA bloc, especially in Haryana and Maharashtra.
In the remaining five states, the BJP is expected to smoothly win the Rajya Sabha seats.Also Read: Rahul Gandhi to relinquish Wayanad seat? Kerala Congress chief says, ‘can't expect him to…’Of the RS members vacating their seats, three are Union ministers —Piyush Goyal (Maharashtra), Jyotiraditya Scindia (Madhya Pradesh) and Sarbananda Sonowal (Assam) – who were elected to the Lok Sabha after winning the general elections. Goyal won from Mumbai North. Scindia from Guna and Sonowal from Dibrugarh.
Rajya Sabha MPs are elected by MLAs in states through the proportional representation process with the single transferable vote (STV) system. The MLAs don’t vote for each seat. Instead, the MLAs have to list different candidates in the order of their preference.So, getting elected to Rajya Sabha will depend on the number of MLAs a particular party has in the state.
There can be twists, however, if the MLAs cross vote, as it happened in Himachal Pradesh about four months ago. Also Read: Conviction of THESE 6 MPs of INDIA bloc can tweak Lok Sabha 2024 results in Uttar PradeshThe BJP’s Harsh Mahajan pulled off a surprising victory in the lone Rajya Sabha seat in Himachal Pradesh despite having only 25 MLAs in the 68-member Assembly in February. The BJP's
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