Rajya Sabha elections 2022: BJP wins 8 out of 16 seats, Congress sweeps Rajasthan
Polling took place for 16 vacant seats in Rajya Sabha in Rajasthan, Haryana, Karnataka and Maharashtra on June 10.
Jun 11, 2022, 12:24 PM IST
Rajasthan Rajya Sabha Elections: Congress wins 3 seats, BJP 1
Congress candidates Randeep Surjewala, Mukul Wasnik and Pramod Tiwari and the BJP's Ghanshyam Tiwari were declared elected by the Election Commission late Friday night.
Jun 11, 2022, 08:36 AM IST
Rajya Sabha elections 2022: Election Commission favoured BJP, alleges Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut
Rajya Sabha polls 2022: Out of 6 seats in Maharashtra, BJP won 3 seats. Shiv Sena, Congress, and NCP won one seat each.
Jun 11, 2022, 07:55 AM IST
Rajya Sabha polls 2022: Rajasthan MLA Shobharani Kushwaha suspended for cross voting
Rajya Sabha elections: Rajasthan MLA Shobharani Kushwah faced suspension from the BJP after cross-voting and the matter has reached the party high command.
Jun 11, 2022, 07:21 AM IST
Rajya Sabha polls: AIMIM MLAs to vote for Congress candidate Imran Pratapgarhi in Maharashtra
AIMIM MP from Aurangabad, Imtiaz Jaleel, tweeted the party's decision hours before the polling saying "To defeat BJP, our party AIMIM has decided to vote for Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) in the Rajya Sabha elections in Maharashtra."
Jun 10, 2022, 09:06 AM IST
Rajya Sabha Election 2022: Congress wins 3 seats in Rajasthan, BJP gets 1
Some prominent leaders, whose fates will be decided today, include Union Ministers Piyush Goyal and Nirmala Sitharaman, Congress leaders Jairam Ramesh, Randeep Surjewala and Mukul Wasnik.
Jun 10, 2022, 08:29 AM IST
Rajya Sabha polls: Ashok Gehlot govt suspends Internet services in Jaipur's Amer area amid poaching speculations
Rajasthan Congress MLAs were moved from Udaipur to Jaipur ahead of the voting for the Rajya Sabha elections that are slated to be held on Friday and party leaders are hoping to secure three seats in the Upper House of Parliament.
Jun 10, 2022, 08:17 AM IST
Rajya Sabha Election: Voting for 16 seats in 4 states begins, close contest on cards - 10 points
The polling started from 9 am and will continue till 4 pm in the Assembly building. The counting will start from 5 pm. Elections will be held for 16 seats across four states - Maharashtra, Karnataka, Rajasthan and Haryana.
Jun 10, 2022, 08:04 AM IST
Rajya Sabha polls: Siddaramaiah urges JD-S MLAs to support Congress nominee
Siddaramaiah has written a letter to JD-S MLAs, seeking their votes for Congress in the Rajya Sabha elections, reports IANS.
Jun 09, 2022, 23:41 PM IST
Rajya Sabha polls: Former Karnataka CM HD Kumaraswamy urges Congress to support JD(S) candidate
JD(S) has fielded entrepreneur and social worker Kupendra Reddy as its first candidate in the Rajya Sabha election.
Jun 09, 2022, 14:27 PM IST
Magic shows, sports entertain Congress MLAs at Udaipur resort ahead of Rajya Sabha polls
Congress had shifted its MLAs to the luxury Taj Aravali resort and spa fearing horse trading, reports PTI.
Jun 08, 2022, 17:43 PM IST
Rajya Sabha polls: Congress cites numbers to win from Rajasthan and Haryana, accuses BJP of trying to subvert mandates
Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera said the priority of the ruling party should be governance and not displacing governments where it is not in power.
Jun 08, 2022, 15:37 PM IST
Ahead of Rajya Sabha polls, CM Uddhav Thackeray says 'no matter how hard anyone tries' all 4 MVA candidates will win
In the Trident Hotel in Malad, the three alliance partners of the Maha Vikas Aghadi government, Shiv Sena, Congress, NCP held a meeting on Tuesday and discussed the strategy for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls. Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray, NCP`s Sharad Pawar, and Congress` Mallikarjun Kharge among others took part in the meeting.
Jun 08, 2022, 10:50 AM IST
Shiv Sena corrals MLAs in Mumbai hotel to avoid poaching ahead of Rajya Sabha polls
The Shiv Sena has 55 MLAs (one MLA had died due to a heart attack last month) in the 288-member House. Chief Minister and Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray reportedly met the party MLAs as well as others supporting it on Monday.
Jun 07, 2022, 16:35 PM IST
Rajya Sabha elections: 41 elected unopposed including Kapil Sibal, Chidambaram
Of the 41 winners, 14 are from the BJP, four each from Congress and YSR Congress; three each from DMK and BJD; two each from AAP, RJD, TRS, AIADMK, one each from JMM, JDU, SP and RLD besides Independent Sibal.
Jun 04, 2022, 06:52 AM IST
Ghulam Nabi Azad rejected Sonia Gandhi’s offer to be number two in Congress: Report
According to sources, in his conversation with Sonia Gandhi, they did not talk about the Rajya Sabha election but asked Ghulam Nabi Azad whether he would be comfortable working in the number two position in Congress.
Jun 02, 2022, 23:43 PM IST
Rajya Sabha polls: 8 BJP candidates file nomination from Uttar Pradesh in presence of CM Yogi Adityanath
The BJP`s list of candidates for the Upper House has some prominent names, including Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, missing. The party has so far released the names of 22 candidates in the three lists.
May 31, 2022, 13:43 PM IST
Dr Subhash Chandra files nomination for Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan as BJP supported candidate
According to the Election Commission of India, the notification for the biennial elections has been issued on May 24, 2022, while the last date for making nominations is May 31, 2022.
May 31, 2022, 11:57 AM IST
Rajya Sabha polls: Names of Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Prakash Javadekar, RPN Singh missing from BJP list
The names of Union Minority Affairs Minister Naqvi, former Union Minister Prakash Javadekar, party national general secretary Dushyant Gautam, former national vice president Dr Vinay Sahastrabuddhe, former Union Minister Shiv Pratap Shukla and national spokesperson Syed Zafar Islam are missing in the lists released.
May 31, 2022, 11:16 AM IST
Rajya Sabha polls: Vasundhara Raje bete noire Ghanshyam Tiwari fielded as BJP candidate from Rajasthan
Ghanshyam Tiwari, known for his anti-Raje stand, also left the party during the 2018 Assembly polls and formed his own party. For a short period, he joined hands with the Congress too, but then made a homecoming on the persuasion of the BJP leaders.
May 30, 2022, 14:07 PM IST
