Rajya sabha election

Why you’re reading this: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in a major decision has asked all its Rajya Sabha MPs, who are also serving as the Cabinet ministers in the central government, to look for the seats from which they want to contest the upcoming 2024 Lok Sabha elections, sources informed. The instruction has been issued by the party irrespective of the hierarchy of the ministers. According to sources, Union ministers, including Nirmala Sitharaman and S Jaishankar, have also been given an indication to fight the 2024 polls either by Prime Minister Narendra Modi or national party president JP Nadda. 'Get elected by people': BJP instructs its ministers Issuing new instructions, the BJP High Commnad has instructed all its ministers from the Rajya Sabha to fight the upcoming 2024 polls and get elected by the people, sources reported. Sounding bugle for 2024, Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the meeting reportedly asked all the top ministers of the party in Rajya Sabha to fight Lok Sabha polls. Revealing further details, sources stated that External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw are among several others, who have been instructed to pitch a suitable constituency for themselves for 2024 polls.

With high-tension drama of special observers being appointed and videography of the entire exercise amid the allegations of horse trading, polling for Rajya Sabha elections in 16 seats of four states is currently underway. Here is all you need to know about what goes on while electing the members of the Upper House of Parliament. A single transferable vote means the voter gets to pick choices based on preference. The voter can put ‘X’ candidate as his number one preference and ‘Y’ as number two, and so on. In case, ‘X’ candidate is eliminated for having low votes during the counting procedure, then the voter's vote to ‘X’ can be transferred to ‘Y’ and so on.

The stage is set for the Rajya Sabha elections on Friday, June 10. The Rajya Sabha, or the Council of States, has 245 seats. The election is to fill 57 seats of the 245 (233 elected+ 12 nominated) seats of the Upper House of the Parliament, with them falling vacant due to the retirement of members, some prominent ones being Union ministers Piyush Goyal and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, and Congress leaders like Ambika Soni, Jairam Ramesh, and Kapil Sibal, on different dates between June and August. While 11 seats are falling vacant in Uttar Pradesh, six members each are retiring from Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra, five from Bihar, and four each from Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Karnataka. Three members each from Madhya Pradesh and Odisha, two each from Telangana, Chhattisgarh, Punjab, Jharkhand, and Haryana, and one from Uttarakhand are also retiring. Voting & counting As per Article 80(4), the seats across the aforementioned 15 states will be elected by the elected members of the state assemblies through a system of proportional representation by means of a single transferrable vote. Counting will commence an hour after the conclusion of voting. The number of votes a person requires depends on the number of vacancies and the strength of the house. The number is calculated through the formula: [(Number of MLAs X 100) / (Vacancies + 1)] + 1. That is, the total number of MLAs is multiplied by 100. This number is then divided by the number of vacancies plus 1. This total number is adde...

Rajya Sabha elections were held in four states. Ahead of next month’s Presidential election, the BJP received a major boost by registering wins in three of the four states where Rajya Sabha polls were held for 16 seats on Friday (June 10). The BJP bagged three seats each in Maharashtra and Karnataka while there were one wins apiece in Rajasthan and Haryana. Also read: In Maharashtra, the ruling alliance of the Shiv Sena, NCP, and Congress suffered a setback after the counting of votes was delayed for eight hours amid complaints of cross-voting and rules violation by the BJP and the ruling alliance. Both BJP and the Shiv Sena approached the Election Commission, alleging cross-voting and seeking disqualification of votes. Goyal wins The poll panel directed the Rajya Sabha election returning officer of Maharashtra to reject the vote cast by Shiv Sena legislator Suhas Kande, after which the counting of votes got underway. Also read: From the BJP, Union minister Piyush Goyal and former state minister Anil Bonde, and Dhananjay Mahadik won. Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut, NCP’s Praful Patel, and Congress’ Imran Pratapgarhi also won. The contest was for the sixth seat — the BJP had fielded former MP Dhananjay Mahadik and the Shiv Sena candidate was Sanjay Pawar, who lost. “Elections are contested not just for the fight, but the victory. Jai Maharashtra,” tweeted BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis, whose refusal to have consensus candidates for the Rajya Sabha led to elections in the state afte...

Mumbai: Maharashtra's ruling alliance suffered a massive setback today with the BJP winning a third seat in the state in straight fight against the Shiv Sena. With this, the state's numbers in the six Rajya Sabha seats in the state are split down the middle with the BJP and the alliance winning three seats each -- an outcome that is expected to influence the coming MLC and civic elections in the state. The BJP's Dhananjay Mahadik beat Sena's Sanjay Pawar on the sixth seat, the results of which came close to dawn on Saturday. The results showed an unexpected 10 votes in favour of the BJP. A candidate needed 41 votes for victory. The other winners were the BJP's Piyush Goyal and Anil Bonde, Congress's Imran Pratapgarhi, NCP's Praful Patel and Sena's Sanjay Raut.Both Piyush Goyal and Anil Bonde got 48 votes. An MLA needed 41 votes to win. "Elections are contested not just for the fight, but the victory. Jai Maharashtra," tweeted the BJP's Devendra Fadnavis, whose refusal to have consensus candidates for the Rajya Sabha led to elections in the state after 23 years. "Dhananjay Mahadik got more votes than Shiv Sena's Sanjay Raut and defeated Shiv Sena's Sanjay Pawar... Tomorrow it will be said that one vote has been cancelled by the Election Commission. Had he (Sanjay Pawar) got that vote, we would have won. Even if Nawab Malik had come, we would have won," Mr Fadnavis told reporters. The ruling coalition had suffered a setback initially as arrested minister Nawab Malik and form...

New Delhi: BJP Trying A Tested Formula, May Field 8 Rajya Sabha Ministers In Lok Sabha Polls New Delhi: BJP Trying A Tested Formula, May Field 8 Rajya Sabha Ministers In Lok Sabha Polls The BJP had in the 2019 elections fielded three Union ministers from the Rajya Sabha — Ravi Shankar Prasad from Patna, Smriti Irani from Amethi and Harpal Singh Puri from Amritsar — and all had won. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is contemplating a move to shift eight Unionministersfrom the Rajya Sabha to contest the Lok Sabha elections to counter the possibility of its numbers in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections dwindling. TheBJPhad in the 2019 elections fielded three Unionministersfrom the Rajya Sabha — Ravi Shankar Prasad from Patna, Smriti Irani from Amethi and Harpal Singh Puri from Amritsar — and all had won. Piyush Goyal has been managing resources Those who could be moved this time include Piyush Goyal, the leader of the House in the Rajya Sabha and a third time MP who is known as a crisis manager of the government both inside and outside Parliament. Goyal hails from Mumbai and, like his late father, has been managing the party's resources and logistics for several elections. Others on the list are two-term MPs Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav, Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, and Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya. Yadav, who has handled crucial political assignments on behalf of home minister Amit Shah in Gujarat and Bihar, may be fielded from Rajasthan which sent him to th...