Rajya Sabha Elections 2022 Live Updates: Voting underway in four states; Bombay HC refuses to entertain Nawab Malik's plea seeking permission to vote
Rajya Sabha Election 2022 Live Updates: Voting for 16 seats in Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Haryana, and Karnataka underway. In Maharashtra, AIMIM has decided to extend its support to the MVA candidates, party MP Imtiaz Jaleel Friday said.
Rajya Sabha Election Voting Live Updates: The voting for 16 vacant seats in Rajya Sabha in four states — Rajasthan, Haryana, Karnataka and Maharashtra — concluded at 4 pm on Friday. Out of the four Rajya Sabha seats that went to the polls in Rajasthan, Congress bagged three while the BJP won the remaining one. Randeep Surjewala, Mukul Wasnik and Pramod Tiwari were the winners from Congress. Ghanshyam Tiwari clinched one seat for the BJP in the state.
While counting was scheduled to begin at 5 pm, two Congress MLA votes that have come under cloud for allegedly violating “secrecy norms” have resulted in a delay in the counting of votes for two Rajya Sabha seats in Haryana. While the ruling BJP and the candidate it supported, Kartikeya Sharma, cried foul alleging that the returning officer did not conduct fair polling, the opposition Congress said the “polling was totally fair” and it was only a “tactic” being adopted by BJP after realising that they had lost the battle.
The biennial elections to Rajya Sabha were held to fill 57 seats in the Upper House across 15 states. Of them, 41 candidates belonging to various parties in 11 states — Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Punjab – have won unopposed.
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8.22 pm: Congress bags three seats, BJP one in Rajasthan
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