BJP releases candidates for MLC elections in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar
India | March 09, 2024 16:36 ISTThe tenure of 13 MLCs in Uttar Pradesh will end on May 5. BJP with its allies can have a maximum of 10 MLCs and SP may have three.
The tenure of 13 MLCs in Uttar Pradesh will end on May 5. BJP with its allies can have a maximum of 10 MLCs and SP may have three.
Patel, who has aligned himself with Ajit Pawar in the NCP's factional fight, was elected to the Rajya Sabha for a fifth term in July 2022.
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Congress won 3 Rajya Sabha seats in Karnataka while BJP secured one after cross-voting on Tuesday.
Reacting strongly to Somashekar's action, the BJP declared its intention to take strict action against him. BJP chief whip Doddana Gowda emphasised that Somashekhar would face consequences for cross-voting.
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The BJP and the SP are the two largest parties in the 403-member state assembly with 252 MLAs and 108 MLAs respectively. The Congress, an alliance partner of the SP, has two seats.
Gujarat news: None of the four candidates have any First Information Reports registered against them, nor are they facing any criminal trial, the affidavits declared.
Sonia Gandhi will fill the seat that will fall vacant in April after former prime minister Manmohan Sigh completes his Rajya Sabha tenure. Gandhi was accompanied by her son Rahul Gandhi and daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra besides former Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot as she filed nomination.
Rajya Sabha MP Vikramjit Singh Sahney has urged Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur to block social media accounts spreading hate speech against Sikhs.
Dholakia is the founder and chairman of Shree Ramkrishna Exports Private Limited, a Surat-based diamond manufacturing and exporting company based in Surat.
In a surprise move, the NDA has decided to field additional candidates for the Rajya Sabha elections from Karnataka scheduled on February 27. Kupendra Reddy is a former Rajya Sabha member and a close aide of JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy.
Sonia Gandhi will fill the seat that will fall vacant in April after former prime minister Manmohan Sigh completes his Rajya Sabha tenure. Gandhi was accompanied by her son Rahul Gandhi and daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra besides former Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot as she filed nomination.
Himachal Pradesh is poised to see an interesting contest in the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections as the BJP has nominated Harsh Mahajan as its candidate against Congress' Abhishek Manu Singhvi.
Union ministers Mansukh Mandaviya and Parshottam Rupala from Gujarat, and Union minister Narayan Rane from Maharashtra are among those retiring from the House.
Bihar former Chief Minister Lalu Yadav was at the Bihar Assembly as he accompanied RJD candidates Manoj Jha and Sanjay Yadav who filed nomination papers for Rajya Sabha elections.
The BJP is also short of 10 votes to secure the victory of its eighth candidate. Sanjay Seth, who switched from the SP to the BJP in 2019, is contesting as the saffron party's eighth Rajya Sabha candidate in Uttar Pradesh.
Ex-Congress president Sonia Gandhi has been a Member of Parliament from Uttar Pradesh's Rae Bareli since 2004. In the last election, her son Rahul Gandhi lost his family bastion Amethi to BJP's Smriti Irani. BJP claims 'fear to lose' is the reason behind her shifting from Lok Sabha to Rajya Sabha.
Three seats are up for grabs from Telangana and the BRS can bag one seat with its strength of 39 MLAs in the House of 119.
Dholakia is the founder and chairman of Shree Ramkrishna Exports Private Limited, a Surat-based diamond manufacturing and exporting company based in Surat.
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