Voting for Rajya Sabha began on Saturday morning as 27 Upper House seats from seven states went to elections. 58 RS seats fell vacant from 16 states over the past two months. Of these seats, 31 candidates have already won unopposed and their results will be formally announced, along with the 27 seats.
There seems to be a verbal war between SP and BJP legislator. In UP, there was a verbal spat between Samajwadi Party MLA Hazi Zamerullah Khan and Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Raghunandan Singh Badauriya over their candidates during voting.
SP MLAs are goons who are openly not letting us cast our vote, they have been exposed: Krishna Paswan, BJP #RSPolls pic.twitter.com/ONiz8TIpHz
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) June 11, 2016
Polling started in Madhya Pradesh in which two BJP candidates senior journalist MJ Akbar and Anil Dave and Congress nominee Vivek Tankha are in the fray. In this polling, 228 members of the house will take part.
In Rajasthan, which is a house of 200, the ruling BJP has 160 members and Congress 24. National Peoples Party has four, BSP has three, National Unionist Zamindara Party has two and seven are independents.
In Haryana House, Assembly has 90 members and polling will take place between 9am and 4pm today. Congress already made its decision with respect to support INLD-backed Independent candidate and lawyer R K Anand
