The stakes are high for the 16 Rajya Sabha seats spread across four states, with voting taking place on Friday.
In Haryana, there are three candidates for the two Rajya Sabha seats - BJP's Krishan Lal Panwar, Congress's Ajay Maken, and Kartikeya Sharma, who is the son of former Union minister Venod Sharma and son-in-law of senior Congress leader Kuldeep Sharma. The contest has spiced up for the second seat with the entry of Mr Sharma, who has the backing of the BJP-JJP combine, the Independents, and Gopal Kanda, the lone MLA of the Haryana Lokhit Party.