Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, May 12: Elections for 57 Rajya Sabha seats across 15 states will be held on June 10, according to an Election Commission official.
In the run-up to the presidential election in July, these elections will be significant. Seven nominated MP seats are also empty.
Notably, Uttar Pradesh holds the most seats, with 11. It is followed by Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, each of which has six seats up for election.
Five seats in Bihar, four in Karnataka, Rajasthan, and Andhra Pradesh, three in Madhya Pradesh and Odisha, two each in Punjab, Jharkhand, Haryana, Chhattisgarh, and Telangana, and one in Uttarakhand will be contested.
The BJP holds 23 of the 57 seats, while the Congress holds eight. The remaining is split between the BJP and other political parties. The strength of MK Stalin’s DMK and Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party is expected to grow after this phase.
Several Union ministers’ tenure is coming to an end, and they will be up for re-election, including Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal, and Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi.
Many Congress leaders’ terms are coming to an end, including P Chidambaram, Kapil Sibal, Jairam Ramesh, and Ambika Soni. Following the biennial elections last month, the BJP became the first party since 1990 to gain 100 seats in the upper house of parliament.
With three more seats gained in Assam, Tripura, and Nagaland, the party now has 101 members in the Upper House. The Rajya Sabha has 245 members, with a 123-member majority.
