Rajya Sabha Election 2020

Bihar BJP state president Sanjay Jaiswal on Tuesday took a swipe at RJD leader Manoj Jha, saying that the Rajya Sabha member should desist from indulging in drama and accept the verdict.

The Shiv Sena may contest 30 to 40 Assembly seats in Bihar, Party MP Sanjay Raut said on Monday. The Rajya Sabha member said a decision on the number of seats to be contested is expected to be taken in a day or two.

Shiv Sena's Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut on Friday said that Maharashtra Chief Minister and Sena Chief Uddhav Thackeray will soon take a call on his party contesting the Bihar Assembly elections.

Ruling alliance NDA candidate Harivansh has been appointed Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha today as the monsoon session of parliament began.

Raising a new slogan --"Bhajpa hai Taiyar, Atma Nirbhar Bihar (BJP is ready, self-reliant Bihar) -- the party's national general secretary and Rajya Sabha MP Bhupender Yadav on Sunday asserted that the NDA constituents will repeat its Lok Sabha poll triumph in assembly elections.

By-election to two Rajya Sabha seats - one each in Uttar Pradesh and Kerala - will be held on August 24, the Election Commission announced today.

Two persons have been charged with sedition and hatching criminal conspiracy for their alleged involvement in horse-trading of Congress MLAs ahead of the Rajya Sabha elections last month, a top official said on Friday.

With the result of the latest round of biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha being declared last evening, the BJP-led NDA has further widened its gap with the Opposition in the Upper House of Parliament, with the BJP now having 86 seats, while rival Congress is down to 41.

WR Kharlukhi of Meghalaya's National People's Party (NPP) won the lone Rajya Sabha seat from the state on Friday, officials said.

Voting for elections to 24 Rajya Sabha seats began today at 9am. Elections are being held on four seats each from Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, three each from Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, two from Jharkhand and one each from the northeastern states of Meghalaya and Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram.

Leaders are voting for elections to 24 Rajya Sabha seats, most of them put on hold since March by the coronavirus pandemic. The build-up to the elections, in which seats from 10 states are at stake, was marked by a resurgence of resort politics, resignations, switching sides and allegations of bribery. In two states, Gujarat and Rajasthan, the Cong...

The stage is set for election to Mizoram's lone Rajya Sabha seat, which will witness a triangular contest today.

BJP candidates Jyotiraditya Scindia and Sumer Singh Solanki, and senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh are all set to sail through to the three Rajya Sabha seats in Madhya Pradesh even before elections are held today.

The stage is set in Rajasthan for Rajya Sabha elections on three seats on Friday, with the Congress and opposition BJP keeping their legislators in different hotels after accusing each other of poaching MLAs.

Elections for the four Rajya Sabha seats in Gujarat on Friday are likely to go down to the wire as both the ruling BJP and the opposition Congress do not have absolute numbers in the assembly to get all their candidates win on their own.

Bihar BJP state president Sanjay Jaiswal on Tuesday took a swipe at RJD leader Manoj Jha, saying that the Rajya Sabha member should desist from indulging in drama and accept the verdict.

The Shiv Sena may contest 30 to 40 Assembly seats in Bihar, Party MP Sanjay Raut said on Monday. The Rajya Sabha member said a decision on the number of seats to be contested is expected to be taken in a day or two.

Shiv Sena's Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut on Friday said that Maharashtra Chief Minister and Sena Chief Uddhav Thackeray will soon take a call on his party contesting the Bihar Assembly elections.

Ruling alliance NDA candidate Harivansh has been appointed Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha today as the monsoon session of parliament began.

Raising a new slogan --"Bhajpa hai Taiyar, Atma Nirbhar Bihar (BJP is ready, self-reliant Bihar) -- the party's national general secretary and Rajya Sabha MP Bhupender Yadav on Sunday asserted that the NDA constituents will repeat its Lok Sabha poll triumph in assembly elections.

By-election to two Rajya Sabha seats - one each in Uttar Pradesh and Kerala - will be held on August 24, the Election Commission announced today.

Two persons have been charged with sedition and hatching criminal conspiracy for their alleged involvement in horse-trading of Congress MLAs ahead of the Rajya Sabha elections last month, a top official said on Friday.

With the result of the latest round of biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha being declared last evening, the BJP-led NDA has further widened its gap with the Opposition in the Upper House of Parliament, with the BJP now having 86 seats, while rival Congress is down to 41.

WR Kharlukhi of Meghalaya's National People's Party (NPP) won the lone Rajya Sabha seat from the state on Friday, officials said.

Voting for elections to 24 Rajya Sabha seats began today at 9am. Elections are being held on four seats each from Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, three each from Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, two from Jharkhand and one each from the northeastern states of Meghalaya and Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram.

Leaders are voting for elections to 24 Rajya Sabha seats, most of them put on hold since March by the coronavirus pandemic. The build-up to the elections, in which seats from 10 states are at stake, was marked by a resurgence of resort politics, resignations, switching sides and allegations of bribery. In two states, Gujarat and Rajasthan, the Cong...

The stage is set for election to Mizoram's lone Rajya Sabha seat, which will witness a triangular contest today.

BJP candidates Jyotiraditya Scindia and Sumer Singh Solanki, and senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh are all set to sail through to the three Rajya Sabha seats in Madhya Pradesh even before elections are held today.

The stage is set in Rajasthan for Rajya Sabha elections on three seats on Friday, with the Congress and opposition BJP keeping their legislators in different hotels after accusing each other of poaching MLAs.

Elections for the four Rajya Sabha seats in Gujarat on Friday are likely to go down to the wire as both the ruling BJP and the opposition Congress do not have absolute numbers in the assembly to get all their candidates win on their own.