Election Commission of India
New Delhi: The Election Commission on Monday issued a notification regarding 6 vacant Rajya Sabha seats. The elections to the Upper House will be held on December 20 and the results will also be known in the afternoon or evening of the same day. These elections will be held in Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, West Bengal and Haryana.
Three seats will go to TDP account
Maximum number of seats are vacant in Andhra Pradesh. Rajya Sabha elections will be held here for three seats. Three MPs from Jagan Mohan Reddy’s YSRCP, Venkatraman Rao Mopidevi, Beedha Mastan Rao Yadav and Rayaga Krishnaiah, had resigned from the Rajya Sabha, leading to elections for new members. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandra Babu Naidu’s Telugu Desam Party (TDP) can easily win all the three seats.
The elections will be held in a seat in Odisha.
Elections will be held for a Rajya Sabha seat in Odisha. Naveen Patnaik-led BJD MP Sujit Kumar had resigned from Rajya Sabha. The BJP is likely to win this seat in the state. Because the BJP has formed the government here for the first time with an absolute majority.
TMC to get seat in Bengal
Jawahar Sarkar of the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal had resigned from his post as a Rajya Sabha member. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s TMC can win this seat comfortably.
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