Polling started at 9 am for six seats in Maharashtra, four each in Rajasthan and Karnataka along with two seats in Haryana. The polling process is scheduled to close at 4 pm and counting of votes will be taken up at 5 pm.
Among the candidates whose electoral fate will be decided in these elections are Union Ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal, Congress's Randeep Surjewala, Jairam Ramesh and Mukul Wasnik and Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut.
Bienniel elections to 57 Rajya Sabha seats were announced recently. Out of this, 41 candidates in Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Punjab, Telangana, Jharkhand and Uttarakhand were declared elected unopposed on 4 June 2022.
However, elections for 16 seats were necessitated as the number of candidates exceeds the seats going to the polls.
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