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Elections for more than 70 Rajya Sabha seats to be held this year

Besides Union Ministers Hardeep Singh Puri and Ramdas Athawale, other prominent leaders who will retire during the year include Sharad Pawar, Digvijay Singh and Vijay Goel

BJP names 18 candidates including Narayan Rane for Rajya Sabha polls

The party's choices for the Rajya Sabha indicate an effort on its part to strengthen its social equations in the states going to the polls this year

Jaitley to contest RS polls from UP, Pradhan from Madhya Pradesh: BJP

Jaitley is currently a Rajya Sabha member from Gujarat and Pradhan is a member from Bihar

RS polls: Changed legislative math in Gujarat may play spoiler for BJP

As per the number of seats won in the Gujarat Assembly elections held in December last year, both the BJP and the Congress are poised to get two seats each to the Rajya Sabha

Rajya Sabha polls: BJP to improve tally, but not enough to push amendments

New Delhi, 23 FebruaryThe Election Commission on Friday announced that polling for 58 Rajya Sabha seats, set to fall vacant in April, will take place on March 23. The counting of votes will also take place on the same day.With barely a year left in the life of the current Lok Sabha, the changed Rajya Sabha numbers would have more of an impact in the first couple of years of the next Lok Sabha. Nearly a third of the members of the 245-seat Rajya Sabha retire every two years, and the changed numbers would determine the complexion of the House until April 2020.The results will increase the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) tally in the Rajya Sabha. But the BJP, along with its allies, and even friendly parties, like the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), would still lack the numbers to push through a constitution amendment.Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been calling for simultaneous Lok Sabha and assembly polls. But the constitution needs to be amended for this. A ...

Rajya Sabha biennial polls in UP to bring cheers to BJP as 13 seats vacant

It is still too early to say whether the opposition parties will put up a joint candidate so as not to fritter away their votes

Who'll be the winning trio?

Given AAP's overwhelming numbers in the Delhi Assembly, it is set to win all three seats

Rajya Sabha polls: Amit Shah holds meeting with party leaders in Gujarat

It is expected that similar rounds of meetings would continue tomorrow

Gujarat: Amit Shah, Smriti Irani file nomination for Rajya Sabha elections

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah and Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Smriti Irani on Friday filed their nominations for Rajya Sabha elections from Gujarat.The Parliamentary board of the BJP on Wednesday announced that party chief Amit Shah and Union Minister Smriti Irani will contest for Rajya Sabha elections from Gujarat.Shortly after concluding the board meeting, BJP leader and Union Minister J.P. Nadda made the announcement."The Parliamentary board has decided to field our party chief Amit Shah and Textile and I&B minister Smriti Irani for the Gujarat Rajya Sabha seats," he said.Currently, Shah is an MLA from Gujarat's Naranpura constituency.Nadda also said that BJP's woman tribal leader Sampatia Uike, from Mahakoshal region, Madhya Pradesh will be fielded in the Rajya Sabha by-election from the state.