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  • BJP proclaims 4 extra candidates for RS polls, fields social gathering’s OBC wing head K Laxman from Uttar Pradesh

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: The BJP on Monday introduced 4 extra candidates for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls.

    The BJP’s OBC wing chief K Laxman has been fielded from Uttar Pradesh, Sumitra Valmiki from Madhya Pradesh, Lal Singh Sirhoya from Karnataka and Mithilesh Kumar from Uttar Pradesh, in keeping with a press release issued by the social gathering.

    With this, the BJP has introduced a complete of twenty-two candidates for the election on June 10 to fill 57 Rajya Sabha seats from numerous states.

    The BJP had on Sunday introduced 18 candidates for the polls.

    Names of some outstanding BJP leaders, together with Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Vinay Sahasrabuddhe, Prakash Javadekar and O P Mathur, have been lacking from the record.

  • Rajya Sabha polls: Congress manages to persuade JMM to again its candidate in Jharkhand

    Express News Service

    RANCHI: Amid hassle mounting on CM Hemant Soren over mining lease allegations, Congress is alleged to have managed to persuade JMM to again its candidate within the upcoming Rajya Sabha (RS) Polls in Jharkhand. JMM insiders knowledgeable that Soren, after a protracted assembly with Congress chief Sonia Gandhi at New Delhi on Saturday, has withdrawn his declare over the RS seat in Jharkhand and agreed to again Congress candidate for a similar.

    The announcement of the candidate from the Congress Party will is more likely to happen by late within the night.

    “I won’t speak on whether the candidate for Rajya Sabha elections from Jharkhand will be of the Congress or of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), still there’s some time. Discussions are going on regarding it and after that, it’ll be announced,” CM Hemant Soren instructed media in New Delhi.

    Jharkhand Congress president Rajesh Thakur additionally asserted {that a} chief from Jharkhand ought to go to Rajya Sabha.

    “Still, we will follow what our president Sonia Gandhi says. The list will come today and positive talks were held (with JMM) and I can say that there will be a Congress candidate,” mentioned Thakur.

    Notably, two seats of Rajya Sabha from Jharkhand will go to the polls because the tenures of Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and BJP MP Mahesh Poddar are ending on July 7. The final date for submitting nominations is May 31, whereas the voting can be held on June 10.

    In 81-member Jharkhand Assembly, JMM has 30 MLAs and a candidate wants solely 27 votes to win. Congress then again has 17 MLAs whereas BJP has 26 MLAs together with 2 MLAs of AJSU. Besides RJD, CPI (ML) and NCP every having 1 MLA, Jharkhand Assembly additionally has 2 unbiased MLAs.

    Earlier per week in the past, JMM General Secretary Supriyo Bhattacharya, holding a press convention, had introduced that it has already been determined forward of 2019 elections that JMM will discipline its candidate for all Rajay Sabha seats getting vacant throughout 2019 and 2024. But, quickly after assembly Sonia Gandhi, Soren modified his stand.

    In the current state of affairs, the grand alliance will get one of many two seats and BJP can also be more likely to get one seat in Rajya Sabha, if it succeeds in bringing the 2 unbiased MLAs to its aspect.

    JMM chief Shibu Soren and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state president Deepak Prakash had received the 2 seats in 2020. The Congress had fielded Shahzada Anwar as its candidate who misplaced it for not having enough numbers.

  • Balbir Singh Seechewal, Vikramjit Singh Sahney to be AAP candidates for Rajya Sabha from Punjab

    By PTI

    CHANDIGARH: The ruling Aam Aadmi Party in Punjab on Saturday declared famous environmentalist Balbir Singh Seechewal and an entrepreneur, philanthropist and social activist Vikramjit Singh Sahney as its candidates for Rajya Sabha seats from the state.

    An announcement on this regard was made by Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on his Twitter deal with.

    “I am happy to announce that AAP is nominating two Padma Shri awardees for the Rajya Sabha. One is environmentalist Padma Shri Sant Balbir Singh Seechewal and second is Padma Shri Vikramjit Singh Sahney. My best wishes to both of them,” stated CM Mann in a tweet.

    The time period of Rajya Sabha members from Punjab Ambika Soni (Congress) and Balwinder Singh Bhunder (Shiromani Akali Dal) is because of expire on July 4.

    The final date for the submitting of nominations is May 31.

    The scrutiny of nominations shall be performed on June 1 whereas the final date of for the withdrawal of candidature is June 3.

    The date of polling is June 10 from 9 am to 4 pm.

    The counting shall be held on the identical day at 5 pm.

  • Uttar Pradesh: SP’s RS picks a part of a three-pronged technique with a watch on 2024 LS polls 

    Express News Service

    LUCKNOW: After dealing with a rout within the lately concluded UP Assembly election regardless of having taken its tally to 111 from 47, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has performed his playing cards in Rajya Sabha polls sensibly following a three-pronged strategy– of mollifying Azam Khan, cementing ties with RLD and conserving the minority neighborhood in good humour–with a watch on the final elections of 2024.

    Notably, within the final two basic elections—2014 and 2019—SP didn’t take its tally of MPs past 5 regardless of having stitched a grand alliance with arch-rival Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in 2019.

    However, the SP picks for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections, slated for June 10, mirror the technique to make SP’s combat extra strong in 2024. As per the political pundits, by selecting Kapil Sibal, the Samajwadi Party chief has tried to mollify sulking Azam Khan, a senior social gathering chief and Rampur MLA, who had been languishing in jail for 27 months in reference to a sequence of instances.

    Kapil Sibal represented Azam Khan in a dishonest case in Supreme Court and performed a vital position in securing interim bail for him resulting in his launch from Sitapur District Jail on May 20.
    SP obliged Sibal who served an incredible jolt to Congress social gathering by quitting it in the midst of this month.

    The collection of Jayant Chaudhury, too, has political connotations. Besides cementing the SP-RLD alliance additional within the wake of 2024 electoral battle, the SP has tried to woo the Jat voters of western UP. However, the alliance was there within the meeting polls as effectively nevertheless it couldn’t reap the outcomes on anticipated strains within the constituencies dominated by Jats.

    The impression of the tie-up between the 2 events, attempting to capitalize on the extended farmers’ stir, was restricted to Shamli, Meerut and Muzaffarnagar. Of the 113 seats which went to polls within the first two phases, mainly in western UP, the BJP received 78 seats and SP and RLD 45.

    The SP insiders claimed that until the final second on Wednesday night time, Akhilesh’s spouse and former MP, Dimple Yadav’s title was doing rounds because the social gathering candidate for Rajya Sabha. This upset Jayant Chaudhury after he bought the message that he was put out of the race. Jayant was purportedly promised an RS seat by Akhilesh in the course of the UP meeting polls.

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    However, sensing a possible risk to the alliance, the SP chief modified his determination and met the RLD MLAs on Thursday morning earlier than saying Jayant because the joint SP-RLD candidate for the higher home.

    Highly-placed SP sources additionally claimed that although Akhilesh had promised to ship Jayant Chaudhary to the Rajya Sabha however they’d a disagreement. While Akhilesh Yadav wished Jayant within the higher home as a Samajwadi Party’s member, latter was insisting on representing his personal social gathering RLD backed by the SP.

    Fearing that BJP could woo Jayant earlier than 2024, Akhilesh lastly took the decision in his favour and declared him the Joint candidate of SP and RLD. Moreover, the third candidate named by Akhilesh Yadav is Javed Ali Khan who has filed his nomination papers for the higher home. 

    “The decision in favour of Javed Ali Khan also seems to be party’s well thought out three-pronged strategy of mollifying Azam Khan, cementing tie-up with RLD and keeping the minority community in good humour for better prospects in 2024,” mentioned Prof AK Mishra, a political scientist.

    It could also be recalled that after consolidating in favour of SP within the 2022 polls, the minority neighborhood had not been proud of the SP management leading to a sequence of resignations by the Muslim leaders. Their primary chorus had been the guarded silence of the SP chief over alleged atrocities on Muslim leaders like Azam Khan and Mohammad Shahjeel.

  • Party can contest and win third Rajya Sabha seat if management asks: Maharashtra BJP chief

    By PTI

    MUMBAI: Maharashtra BJP chief Chandrakant Patil on Thursday mentioned his celebration can area a 3rd candidate for the June 10 Rajya Sabha elections and win that seat too if the central management instructed.

    Earlier within the day, the Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut and Sanjay Pawar filed their nomination papers for the elections to 6 Rajya Sabha seats from Maharashtra for which members of the state Assembly would be the electors.

    “If the central leadership instructs us, we will field a third candidate and win that seat as well. Going by the strength in the Assembly, two candidates of BJP can win easily,” Patil advised reporters right here.

    A candidate will want a quota of 42 votes to win. The BJP has sufficient votes to win two seats by itself. Ruling alliance companions Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress have the votes to get one candidate every elected individually, however collectively they will get one other candidate elected to the Upper House of Parliament.

    Banking on this arithmetic, the Sena has determined to area two candidates within the election. The BJP has 106 MLAs within the 288-member Assembly.

    The power of different events is as follows: Shiv Sena 55, NCP 53, Congress 44, Bahujan Vikas Aghadi three, Samajwadi Party, AIMIM and Prahar Janshakti Party two every, MNS, CPM, Peasants and Workers Party, Rashtriya Samaj Paksha, Swabhimani Party, Jansurajya Shakti and Krantikari Shetkari Party one every.

    There are 13 Independents, whereas one seat is vacant.

  • Rajya Sabha polls: BJP more likely to win eight higher home seats from UP, SP three

    Express News Service

    LUCKNOW: With the Election Commission of India (ECI) scheduling the 57 biennial elections for 57 seats of the Rajya Sabha on June 10, the main target shall be on UP, which can ship 11 members to the higher home.

    In truth, UP tops the checklist of states and sends the utmost variety of 31 members to Rajya Sabha.

    With the BJP returning to energy within the state with 273 seats and Samajwadi Party and its allies rising as the biggest opposition with  125 seats, there are solely two clear claimants to the RS seats. The Bahujan Samaj Party  (BSP) and Congress are set to attract a clean owing to their dismal presence within the state meeting.

    While the BSP has only one MLA from Rasra in Ballia,  Congress has two — from Rampur Khas in Pratapgarh and Pharenda in Maharajganj. Besides, the Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiyya-led Jansatta Dal (Loktantrik)  has two seats.

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    Of these, 11 members who will bid adieu to the higher home in July embody BJP’s Shiv Pratap Shukla, Hariom Yadav, Surendra Singh Nagar, Sanjay Seth, Jay Prakash Nishad and Zafar Islam, SP’s Vishambhar Prasad Nishad, Sukhram Singh Yadav and Reoti Raman Singh, BSP’s Satish Chandra Mishra and Ashok Siddharth, and Congress’s Kapil Sibal.

    As per the numbers, the BJP may win a minimum of eight of the 11 seats, whereas Samajwadi Party will comfortably bag a minimum of three.

    Both the ruling BJP and opposition SP would have 5 floating votes comprising one of many BSP, two every of Jansatta Dal and Congress. However, these 5 votes wouldn’t be capable of tilt the polls in favour of one of many two important claimants as every seat would require a minimum of 36.63 votes to sail by way of.

    This signifies that the BJP would require a minimum of 298.64 votes to win eight seats. It is certain to win seven and is 26 votes brief to win the eighth seat because it has 273 votes. So, the second desire vote may even come into play if the Samajwadi Party, which is certain to win three with 109.91 votes, fields a candidate to stake declare for the fourth. This will result in voting.

    This signifies that whereas the BJP would require 26 votes, SP would have 15.36 extra votes and would want 21.53 votes to bag the fourth seat.

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    However, the victory of SP on fourth seat would rely a lot on how disgruntled MLAs like Shivpal Yadav, Azam Khan and his son Abdullah Azam Khan vote.

    According to political observers, as these MLAs have strained ties with SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, the potential of cross-voting can’t be dominated out if the state of affairs arises in RS polls.

    Sources stated that of the three seats which SP is certain to win, the occasion president might select alliance companion and RLD chief Jayant Chaudhury, former IAS officer Alok Ranjan, who had joined the SP simply forward of 2022 Assembly polls, and the occasion’s face in Maharashtra Abu Asim Azmi.

    Moreover, within the wake of the current assembly with senior BJP leaders and cabinet ministers, the strikes of SBSP chief Om Prakash Rajbhar would even be intently watched. At the identical time, if sources are to be believed, Apna Dal (Okay) chief Pallavi Patel, who had received the meeting election below the SP image by defeating BJP’s Keshav Maurya in his personal turf of Sirathu, can be not very pleased with the SP management.

  • Rajya Sabha polls to 57 seats from 15 states on June 10: Election Commission

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: Elections can be held on June 10 to fill 57 Rajya Sabha seats from 15 states falling vacant because of the retirement of members on totally different dates between June and August, the Election Commission stated on Thursday.

    Prominent amongst these retiring are Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Congress leaders Ambika Soni, Jairam Ramesh and Kapil Sibal, and BSP’s Satish Chandra Misra.

    Members are retiring between June 21 and August 1.

    While 11 seats are falling vacant in Uttar Pradesh, six members every are retiring from Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra, 5 from Bihar and 4 every from Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan and Karnataka.

    Three members every from Madhya Pradesh and Odisha, two every from Telangana, Chhattisgarh, Punjab Jharkhand and Haryana, and one from Uttarakhand are additionally retiring.

    The notification for the polls can be issued on May 24 and voting can be held on June 10.

    According to established apply, counting will happen an hour after the conclusion of polling.

    Most of the brand new members who get elected are prone to vote within the President’s election, due someday in July.