Last Updated on 07/08/2024 by Arun jain
The Election Commission has announced the election schedule for 12 seats in nine states. These include two seats each in Assam, Bihar and Maharashtra. There is one seat each in Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tripura, Telangana and Odisha. Elections are being held to fill the seats vacated by the election of Kamakhya Prasad Tasha and Sarbananda Sonowal in Assam, Misa Bharti and Vivek Thakur in Bihar, Deepender Hooda in Haryana, Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia in Madhya Pradesh, Chhatrapati Udayan Raje Bhosale and Piyush Vedprakash Goyal from Maharashtra, KC Venugopal from Rajasthan and Biplab Dev from Tripura as Lok Sabha members.
Elections are being held on the seats vacated by the resignation of Telangana’s Keshavrao and Odisha’s Mamata Mohanta. The members elected after the new elections will serve the remaining term of the outgoing members. This term is from next year i.e. 2025 to 2028.
The Commission said that the notification for Rajya Sabha elections will be issued on August 14 and the last date for filing nomination papers is August 21. The last date for withdrawal of nomination is likely to be August 26-27. Voting will be held in the respective state assemblies on September 3 from 9 am to 4 pm. Counting of votes will start at 5 pm the same evening and the results will be out by night. In these elections too, BJP is hopeful that it can gain one or two seats.
BJP’s number in Rajya Sabha has come down below 90. With this, NDA now has a strength of 101 MPs in the Upper House, which is much less than the majority. There are currently 226 members in the Rajya Sabha.
Let us tell you that the upper house of the Parliament, Rajya Sabha, can have a maximum of 250 members. Out of these, 238 members can be representatives of states and union territories and 12 members are nominated by the President of the country.
Source (PTI) (NDTV) (HINDUSTANTIMES)