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  • Rajya Sabha Polls: Sonia, Nadda Among 41 Elected Unopposed, Voting For 15 Seats On Feb 27 |

    New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha elections saw 41 candidates getting elected without any opposition on Tuesday, including former Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, BJP president J P Nadda, Union ministers Ashwini Vaishnaw and L Murugan, and BJP’s new entrant Ashok Chavan. The remaining 15 seats in Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh will go to polls on February 27. The BJP emerged as the biggest winner, securing 20 seats, followed by the Congress (6), Trinamool Congress (4), YSR Congress (3), RJD (2), BJD (2) and NCP, Shiv Sena, BRS and JD(U) one each. The returning officers declared these 41 candidates as winners on the last date of withdrawal of nominations, as there were no other contenders for these seats.

    The biennial elections were scheduled for February 27 in 56 seats. Out of these, 50 members will retire on April 2 and six on April 3. The voting for 10 seats in Uttar Pradesh, four in Karnataka and one in Himachal Pradesh will take place from 9 am to 4 pm and the counting will start from 5 pm on the same day.

    Nadda and his party colleagues Jasvantsinh Parmar, Mayank Nayak and diamond tycoon Govindbhai Dholakia won from Gujarat. The Congress, which has only 15 MLAs, and other opposition parties did not field any candidates against the BJP, which has 156 legislators in the 182-member Gujarat assembly.

    Sonia Gandhi was among the three candidates who won from Rajasthan, along with BJP’s Chunnilal Garasiya and Madan Rathore.

    Maharashtra also saw six candidates getting elected unopposed – BJP’s Chavan, who switched from the Congress last Tuesday, Medha Kulkarni and Ajit Gopchhade; Shiv Sena’s Milind Deora, who quit the Congress last month, Praful Patel (NCP) and Chandrakant Handore (Cong).

    In Bihar, JD(U)’s Sanjay Kumar Jha, BJP’s Dharmshila Gupta and Bhim Singh, Manoj Kumar Jha and Sanjay Yadav (both RJD) and Akhilesh Prasad Singh (Congress) were the winners.

    Uttar Pradesh will have a contest for 10 seats among 11 candidates. The BJP has nominated eight candidates – former Union minister R P N Singh, former MP Chaudhary Tejveer Singh, state party general secretary Amarpal Maurya, former state minister Sangeeta Balwant, party spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi, former MLA Sadhna Singh, former Agra mayor Naveen Jain and local industrialist and ex-SP leader Sanjay Seth who joined the BJP in 2019.

    The Samajwadi Party (SP) has renominated Jaya Bachchan and also named former MP Ramjilal Suman and retired IAS officer Alok Ranjan as its candidates.

    In Karnataka, four seats will see a fight among five candidates. The Congress has put up Ajay Maken, Syed Naseer Hussain and GC Chandrasekhar, while Narayansa Bandage is the BJP candidate. JD(S) leader and ex-Rajya Sabha member D Kupendra Reddy is also in the fray.

    In Himachal Pradesh, the BJP has forced a contest by fielding Harsh Mahajan against Congress’s Abhishek Manu Singhvi for the lone seat despite lacking enough MLAs to win.

    In the evening, TMC’s Sushmita Dev, Sagarika Ghose, Mamata Thakur and Md Nadimul Haque and Samik Bhattacharya (BJP) were the winners from West Bengal.

    Union minister Murugan, Valmiki Dham Ashram head Umesh Nath Maharaj, Kisan Morcha’s national vice president Banshilal Gurjar, and Madhya Pradesh BJP’s women wing president Maya Naroliya secured four seats for the BJP in Madhya Pradesh while Ashok Singh of the Congress also won without any opposition.

    From Odisha, Union minister Vaishnaw (BJP) and BJD’s Debashish Samantray and Subhashish Khuntia were the winners.

    The YSR Congress bagged all the three seats in Andhra Pradesh – G Babu Rao, Y V Subba Reddy and M Raghunath Reddy while in neighbouring Telangana, the ruling Congress won two seats – Renuka Chowdhury and Anil Kumar Yadav – and BRS one seat – V Ravichandra.

    BJP nominees in Uttarakhand (Mahendra Bhatt), Subhash Barala (Haryana), Devendra Pratap Singh (Chhattisgarh) won without any contest.

  • BJP Chief JP Nadda, Congress` Sonia Gandhi Among Others Elected Unopposed To Rajya Sabha

    Congress president Sonia Gandhi was among the three candidates who were elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan on Tuesday. The other two were BJP’s Chunnilal Garasiya and Madan Rathore.

  • BJP Announces Names Of 14 Candidates For Rajya Sabha Elections Including RPN Singh, Sudhanshu Trivedi |

    New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday released the list of 14 candidates for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections across several states including Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and West Bengal.

    Among the notable candidates are RPN Singh and Sudhanshu Trivedi from Uttar Pradesh, and Subhash Barala from Haryana. Dharamshila Gupta and Bhim Singh have been nominated from Bihar, while Chaudhary Tejveer Singh, Sadhna Singh, Amarpal Maurya, Sangeeta Balwant, and Naveen Jain are the candidates from Uttar Pradesh.

    BREAKING NEWS : BJP ने 14 राज्यसभा उम्मीदवारों का किया ऐलान

    उत्तर प्रदेश से सुधांशु त्रिवेदी, आरपीएन सिंह उम्मीदवार घोषित.

    हरियाणा भाजपा के पूर्व प्रमुख सुभाष बराला को हरियाणा से पार्टी का उम्मीदवार घोषित किया.#BreakingNews #Rajyasabha #BJP #ZeeNews @ramm_sharma pic.twitter.com/T9Wsg0xI4J
    — Zee News (@ZeeNews) February 11, 2024

    The list also includes Mahendra Bhatt from Uttarakhand, Samik Bhattacharya from West Bengal, Narayana Krishnasa Bhandge from Karnataka, and Raja Devendra Pratap Singh from Chhattisgarh.

    BJP announces its candidates from Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and West Bengal for the forthcoming Rajya Sabha elections.

    Sudhanshu Trivedi, RPN Singh from Uttar Pradesh.

    Former Haryana BJP chief Subhash Barala announced as the party’s… pic.twitter.com/jIuoBoQOys
    — ANI (@ANI) February 11, 2024

    The Rajya Sabha elections are scheduled to take place on February 27, with 56 seats up for grabs across 15 states in the country.

  • Rajya Sabha elections: Haryana unbiased’s vote validity to stand judicial problem

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    NEW DELHI: The final bankruptcy within the Haryana Rajya Sabha election saga is but to be written. A photocopy of a poll paper purportedly of an Unbiased MLA is doing the rounds in Congress circles. This MLA marked his vote in favour of Unbiased candidate Kartikeya Sharma who used to be later declared elected.

    What used to be fascinating on this poll paper used to be that the vote casting mark used to be now not discovered within the prescribed field however subsequent to Sharma’s identify. Assets stated Congress will problem the validity of this vote. Its felony workforce is huddled in combination to arrange a petition, which will probably be filed in courtroom on Monday.

    The petition reportedly will call for the rejection of the Unbiased’s vote. It would however search a ruling pointing out celebration MLA Kiran Choudhary’s rejected vote as legitimate. Sharma had edged previous Maken at the foundation of the second one desire votes. His margin of victory is so skinny that if the courtroom rejects the Unbiased MLA’s vote, Maken will win. Assets stated Kiran’s vote used to be rejected as a result of she had put a tick mark in entrance of Maken’s identify as a substitute of writing the #1 within the field along.

    When the poll of the Unbiased got here up for scrutiny, Returning Officer Rajendra Singh Nandal is learnt to have identified that the vote used to be now not written within the prescribed field. There are 3 horizontal bins at the poll. First has the identify of the candidate, 2d the photograph, and the final field is for marking the vote. The Unbiased MLA put the mark ‘1’ within the identify field. 

    Nandal reportedly insisted on rejecting the vote, however Leader Electoral Officer Rajesh Agarwal and Particular Observer Anurag Agarwal, each IAS officials, overruled him. Nandal is a state services and products officer. The IAS duo reportedly stated that the aim of the Unbiased used to be transparent, to which Nandal stated Kiran’s aim, too, used to be similarly transparent. The query, Nandal reportedly stated, used to be whether or not the desire used to be marked in a prescribed way or now not. 

  • Go vote casting in Rajya Sabha polls: Congress expels its Haryana MLA Kuldeep Bishnoi from all birthday celebration positions

    Via PTI

    NEW DELHI: An afternoon after dropping the Rajya Sabha election in Haryana because of cross-voting, the Congress cracked the whip and expelled its legislator Kuldeep Bishnoi from all birthday celebration positions.

    The Haryana Congress has alleged that Bishnoi, an MLA from the Adampur constituency in Hisar, didn’t vote for the birthday celebration candidate Ajay Maken and cross-voted in favour of Impartial candidate Kartikeya Sharma, who was once supported by way of the ruling BJP-JJP mix.

    The Congress had 31 MLA and wanted as many votes to win the Rajya Sabha seat from Haryana, however considered one of its legislators cross-voted and some other’s vote was once cancelled.

    “The Congress president has expelled Kuldeep Bishnoi from all his provide birthday celebration positions, together with the submit of particular invitee of the Congress Running Committee, with speedy impact,” a remark from AICC normal secretary Ok C Venugopal mentioned.

    Bishnoi had now not attended any of the birthday celebration conferences of its legislators and had mentioned that he has voted as in line with his judgment of right and wrong.

  • ‘Fadnavis carried out miracle of weaning away impartial MLAs from rival camps’: Pawar on Rajya Sabha ballot effects

    By means of PTI

    PUNE/MUMBAI: Within the wake of the BJP successful all 3 Rajya Sabha seats it contested in Maharashtra, NCP leader Sharad Pawar on Saturday stated saffron birthday party chief Devendra Fadnavis succeeded in operating the “miracle” of weaning away impartial MLAs from rival camps the use of “other method”.

    He additionally stated that there was once not anything stunning within the election effects, through which a Shiv Sena candidate misplaced.

    Speaking to newshounds in Pune, Pawar stated the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition of Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress made a brave try to win the 6th seat in spite of falling wanting a couple of numbers.

    “I’m really not surprised to look the consequences. The MVA applicants won votes in percentage to the selection of MLAs. Then again, one has to simply accept the miracle through which BJP chief Devendra Fadnavis succeeded in weaning away impartial MLAs and in addition the ones from smaller events, who would have another way supported the MVA. He was once a success in bringing other folks (impartial MLAs) with reference to him by means of the use of other method,” Pawar instructed newshounds in Pune.

    “The MVA made a brave try to win the 6th seat in spite of falling quick or few numbers. The 6th seat was once a possibility for the MVA, however (Maharashtra Leader Minister and Shiv Sena president) Uddhav Thackeray took the chance. In politics, one has to take dangers,” he added.

    When requested whether or not the result of the Rajya Sabha elections would impact the stableness of the MVA govt within the state, Pawar answered within the unfavourable.

    “See the numbers. The specified majority to run a central authority has now not been impacted,” the previous Union minister stated, including that there was once no danger to the MVA dispensation.

    The BJP had fielded 3 applicants out of the overall six Rajya Sabha seats that went to the polls on Friday.

    BJP applicants – Union minister Piyush Goyal, former state minister Anil Bonde and Dhananjay Mahadik – received the fiercely-fought elections, whilst Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut, NCP’s Praful Patel and Congress’ Imran Pratapgarhi additionally got here out victorious.

    The competition was once for the 6th seat – between BJP’s Mahadik and Sena’s Pawar, who misplaced.

    Mahadik and Pawar hail from Kolhapur in western Maharashtra.

    Pawar stated the quota for first desire vote for Patel (NCP), Pratapgarhi (Congress) and Raut (Sena) was once intact.

    “Actually, Praful Patel won an additional vote from a BJP-backed impartial MLA, who voted for Patel after informing me. The impartial has labored with me previous. That further vote was once from the quota of our opponent (BJP), which landed in NCP’s kitty,” the veteran flesh presser stated.

    “Now not a unmarried vote of the NCP, Shiv Sena and Congress was once impacted. Even a unmarried vote from BJP was once impacted. All of the amusing came about within the votes of impartial MLAs,” he added.

    The counting for election to the six Rajya Sabha seats within the state was once held up for a number of hours because the BJP wondered the validity of ballots solid by means of 3 MVA MLAs, alleging that regulations had been violated.

    The MVA too sought to invalidate two votes, one by means of a BJP MLA and some other by means of an Impartial.

    The counting in spite of everything started at 1 pm on Saturday.

    Speaking about it, Pawar alleged that the objection raised by means of BJP over 3 MLAs’ votes was once a pat of “foul play”.

    “The voter is meant to turn the vote to the management. They have got the best to turn the vote. So if somebody presentations the vote to Congress president Nana Patole or NCP state unit leader Jayant Patil, there’s no illegality in that,” he stated.

    Requested about Shiv Sena MLA Suhas Kande’s vote being declared invalid, he stated that he does now not know anything else about it.

    Replying to a query about whether or not the MVA failed to turn the political adulthood within the RS elections, Pawar stated one has to take dangers in politics and that possibility was once taken by means of Shiv Sena leader and Uddhav Thackeray.

    When requested in regards to the upcoming presidential elections, he stated that the problem was once now not mentioned but.

    “I’m going to Delhi the next day and we will be able to sit down in combination and speak about it as everyone desires to speak about it in combination,” he stated.

  • Maharashtra RS polls: BJP luggage 3 of 6 seats in main setback to ruling Sena-NCP-Cong alliance

    Through PTI

    MUMBAI: In a significant setback to Maharashtra’s ruling alliance of Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress, the BJP on Saturday received 3 of the six Rajya Sabha seats within the state, even because the ruling mix puzzled the eight-hour extend in counting of votes.

    The winners come with BJP applicants Union minister Piyush Goyal and previous state minister Anil Bonde and Dhananjay Mahadik. Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut, NCP’s Praful Patel and Congress’ Imran Pratapgarhi additionally received the fiercely-fought elections.

    The competition was once for the 6th seat the BJP had fielded former MP Dhananjay Mahadik and the Shiv Sena candidate was once Sanjay Pawar, who misplaced. Mahadik and Pawar hail from Kolhapur in western Maharashtra.

    The high-stake combat for the 6th became out to be a nail-biting affair with the Congress and BJP buying and selling fees, even coming near the Election Fee.

    “Elections are contested now not only for the combat, however the victory.bJai Maharashtra,” tweeted BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis, whose refusal to have a consensus applicants for the Rajya Sabha ended in elections within the state after 23 years.

    The counting of votes began after an eight-hour extend amid proceedings of move vote casting and laws violation through the BJP and the ruling alliance.bBoth BJP and the Shiv Sena approached the Election Fee, alleging move vote casting and looking for disqualification of votes.bThe ballot panel directed the Rajya Sabha election returning officer of Maharashtra to reject the vote forged through Shiv Sena legislator Suhas Kande, and then the counting of votes were given underway.

  • Haryana RS polls: BJP’s Krishan Panwar, Unbiased candidate win, Congress’ Ajay Maken loses

    By way of PTI

    CHANDIGARH The BJP’s Krishan Lal Panwar and Unbiased candidate Kartikeya Sharma, sponsored through the saffron birthday celebration and its best friend JJP, have gained the 2 Rajya Sabha seats from Haryana, officers mentioned early Saturday, after the counting of votes which used to be behind schedule through hours over allegation of violation of laws. Senior Congress chief Ajay Maken didn’t get sufficient votes.

    In keeping with a senior Election Fee professional right here, Panwar were given 36 votes, whilst Sharma were given 23 first choice votes and 6 transferred from the BJP, taking his tally to 29. Congress MLA and the birthday celebration’s accepted polling agent BB Batra mentioned whilst the birthday celebration’s Kuldeep Bishnoi cross-voted, the vote of every other birthday celebration MLA used to be declared invalid.

    The counting of votes started previous middle of the night Friday after the Election Fee gave the go-ahead. The counting used to be held up after the BJP and an Unbiased candidate sponsored through it had alleged violation of laws and demanded the votes of 2 Congress MLAs be declared invalid. Election Fee resources in Delhi mentioned the call for used to be rejected.

    Panwar and Sharma had written to the EC, alleging Congress MLAs Kiran Choudhary and B B Batra confirmed their poll papers to unauthorised individuals after marking them and that the episodes have been recorded through cameras.

    The Congress had additionally approached the Election Fee accusing the BJP of looking to defeat the method of unfastened and truthful election and demanded rapid declaration of effects.

    89 of a complete of 90 MLAs in Haryana had forged their votes whilst Unbiased MLA Balraj Kundu had abstained from vote casting.

  • Jailed Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik seeks one-day bail to solid vote in Rajya Sabha polls

    Through PTI

    MUMBAI: Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik, recently in prison following arrest in a cash laundering case, on Monday, approached a unique court docket right here in quest of bail for sooner or later to solid vote within the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections to 6 seats from the state.

    Remaining week, Maharashtra’s former house minister Anil Deshmukh, who may be in prison on cash laundering fees, had filed a an identical software.

    On Monday, a unique court docket in Mumbai, designated to listen to instances associated with the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act, directed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to record its affidavit to each the programs (Malik and Deshmukh) and posted them for additional listening to on June 8.

    The Rajya Sabha polls are scheduled on June 10.

    Malik used to be arrested by means of the ED on February 23 this yr in reference to a money-laundering probe related to the actions of fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim and his aides.

    The NCP chief in his software sought to be launched on bail for an afternoon on June 10.

    Malik in his plea claimed that he’s an elected MLA and therefore, is accountability certain to constitute the citizens of his constituency in electing a consultant to the Rajya Sabha, and may be wanting to solid his vote within the aforesaid biennial elections.

    The 288-member Maharashtra Meeting paperwork the electoral school for the Rajya Sabha polls.

    Whilst the 2 NCP MLAS – Deshmukh and Malik- are recently in prison, one seat is mendacity vacant.

    Except for the 4 major events Shiv Sena, NCP, Congress and BJP, the Meeting has 25 MLAs from smaller events and Independents.

    The efficient election quota in keeping with candidate is 42.

    The BJP, which has 106 participants within the Area, has nominated Union minister Piyush Goyal, Anil Bonde and Dhananjay Mahadik.

    The NCP has re-nominated former Union minister Praful Patel, whilst the Congress has fielded Imran Pratapgarhi.

    Sanjay Raut and Sanjay Pawar are nominees of the Shiv Sena.

    The electoral contest for the 6th Rajya Sabha seat lies between BJP’s Dhananjay Mahadik and Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Pawar.

  • Mallikarjun Kharge, Bhupesh Baghel appointed observers forward of Rajya Sabha polls

    By way of PTI

    NEW DELHI: Forward of the June 10 Rajya Sabha elections, Congress president Sonia Gandhi has appointed senior celebration leaders, together with Mallikarjun Kharge and Bhupesh Baghel, as observers.

    Whilst Kharge has been made the observer for Maharashtra, Baghel and Rajeev Shukla had been made observers for Haryana, and Pawan Kumar Bansal and T S Singh Deo for Rajasthan.

    The Congress is looking for to make sure that its applicants win the Rajya Sabha (RS) elections in Haryana, Rajasthan and Maharashtra, whilst the BJP has put its weight at the back of unbiased applicants in Haryana and Rajasthan.

    AICC basic secretary Ajay Maken is the Congress candidate from Haryana, the place two seats have fallen vacant.

    The Congress and the BJP are more likely to get one seat every, however the BJP has sponsored media baron Kartikeya Sharma as an unbiased.

    Sharma is the son of Venod Sharma and son-in-law of former Haryana Speaker Kuldeep Sharma.

    Each are thought to be on the subject of former Haryana leader minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda.

    Congress wishes 31 votes to win the seat and has as many MLAs.

    The Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) is banking on cross-voting.

    For the 4 Rajya Sabha seats in Rajasthan, the Congress has fielded 3 applicants — Randeep Surjewala, Mukul Wasnik and Pramod Tiwari.

    Whilst Congress is bound to get two seats, it wishes 15 extra votes to win the 3rd seat of Tiwari.

    The BJP has fielded its former minister Ghanshyam Tiwari, and sponsored media baron Subhash Chandra as an unbiased for the second one seat.

    In Maharashtra, the Shiv Sena and the BJP will struggle it out for the 6th seat of Rajya Sabha as not one of the seven applicants within the fray — 4 of the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) and 3 of the BJP — withdrew their nominations on Friday.

    The Congress has additionally fielded every other candidate Mansoor Ali Khan in Karnataka, the place the election shall be hung on June 10 for 4 seats.

    Jairam Ramesh is the opposite Congress candidate.

    The Congress is anticipating 3 seats in Rajasthan and the BJP is anticipating one in all its personal and is supporting an unbiased and Subhash Chandra for the fourth seat.

    In the meantime, just about 70 Congress MLAs from Rajasthan are tenting at a resort in Udaipur forward of the Rajya Sabha elections to the 4 seats by which the celebration fears horse-trading via the opposition BJP, celebration resources stated.

    The Congress, with its 108 MLAs within the state meeting, is about to win two seats.

    After successful the 2 seats, the celebration may have 26 surplus votes, 15 in need of the specified 41 to win the 3rd seat.

    Then again, the BJP has 71 MLAs within the state meeting and is about to win one seat and then it is going to be left with 30 surplus votes.

    The Congress has additionally shifted its MLAs in Haryana to a hotel in Raipur in Congress-ruled Chhattisgarh.

    Of the 57 vacancies in Rajya Sabha, 41 applicants in 11 states have thus far been elected unopposed.

    The elections shall be held for 16 seats in 4 states of Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Haryana and Karnataka.