Two MLAs — Akshay Patel from Karjan in Central Gujarat and Jitu Chaudhary from Kaprada in South Gujarat — resigned on June 3, reducing the party’s Assembly number to 66. It is not just about the RS seat but also the fact that many of these MLAs have a rural stronghold, and the BJP has performed dismally in the local polls in 2015. Get Rajasthan Lok Sabha Election Results LIVE details on NDTV.com. So, with only one seat to fight for the Congress now, the BJP will also try to have as many MLAs within the Congress who are willing to vote against the party. “We have made it clear that we don’t see Bharatsinh Solanki as a leader (although he has been a GPCC president). Mevani is the Congress’s safest bet. The BJP has nominated the well-known lawyer Abhay Bhardwaj from Rajkot, and former government officer Ramilaben Bara, a tribal from Sabarkantha, as its candidates, while the Congress candidates are national spokesperson Shaktisinh Gohil and former Union minister Bharatsinh Solanki. Click here to join our channel (@indianexpress) and stay updated with the latest headlines. But then the coronavirus struck, the country went into a national lockdown on March 24, and all elections were postponed. What land laws have been changed in J&K, what do govt and parties say? A change of guard in these states may adversely impact the party’s position in any fresh election to the Rajya Sabha held after these assembly polls. More were rumoured to be quitting — and on June 5, a third MLA, Brijesh Merja, tendered his resignation to Speaker Rajendra Trivedi, and also gave up his primary membership of the Congress party. Between now and November 2020, 75 Rajya Sabha seats will be up for election. The Gujarat Assembly, whose strength is 182, is currently left with 172 MLAs (not counting the Speaker) — of which 103 are from the BJP, 65 Congress, 1 Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), 1 Independent, and 2 Bharatiya Tribal Party (BTP). In the past five years, numbers have proved to be quite a headache for NDA party managers. Each candidate needs 35 votes to win. Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh have four seats each to fill; Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan three seats each; and Jharkhand two. But this is simple arithmetical speculation. Elections to 18 Rajya Sabha seats, which were postponed after the global Covid-19 outbreak, will be held on June 19. No doubt, says BJP; but voices within talk of his reduced clout, In Bhagalpur, LJP cuts into BJP votes, Congress scores win, Bihar election results: Alliance the right move, Left makes a comeback, Will 1 be greater than 75? It is about prestige and numbers,” a senior leader said. The Rajya Sabha elections had been a tame affair until August 2017, when Ahmed Patel faced a fierce contest from a Congress turncoat, Balwantsinh Rajput, whom the BJP nominated as its third candidate for the three vacancies. Polls for the 10 Rajya Sabha seats in the state are due on November 9. Rajya Sabha members are indirectly elected by MLAs of state assemblies and hence, a party needs to capture power in the states. “They are preparing for the upcoming local body polls which are due later this year. Institutional autonomy will be destroyed and there will be no election in future, they said. The move of the BSP was seen by many as having been made in coordination with the BJP, which has fielded just eight candidates for … Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections last year, the Congress tried to strike a deal with Chhotu by proposing that he contest on the hand symbol — but he did not agree, and put up candidates in seven seats, leading to a triangular contest. The Congress and BJP fielded two candidates each for the two seats that had fallen vacant after Shah and Irani won elections to Lok Sabha. Ahead of the vote, political activity has picked up pace in Gujarat, and three Congress MLAs have resigned in the past few days, adding to the desertions seen earlier in March. As the party crossed the 300-mark, it was for the first time since 1971 -- when Indira Gandhi won two consecutive elections -- that a government returned with such a decisive victory. In 2019, in spite of a whip issued by the NCP state president Shankersinh Vaghela to vote for the Congress, Jadeja, according to Chief Minister Vijay Rupani, had voted for the BJP. Does the NDA have the required numbers to make constitutional changes or even get significant legislation passed through both houses? Central Gujarat has been a Congress bastion, where the party has comfortably won in Assembly elections. Also read | Gujarat: ‘No action taken against ex-MP who worked against me,’ says MLA Jitubhai Chaudhary. In conversation with Manish Sabharwal, Chairman & Co-Founder, TeamLease Services Ltd; Director, Central Board of @RBI, Register: https://t.co/1BNVvrqnaW pic.twitter.com/eq3jyGFM3h, — Express Explained (@ieexplained) June 7, 2020. A scrutiny of the status of various parties in the Rajya Sabha indicates that even a simple majority may elude the BJP in its second term. Express Explained is now on Telegram. Narendra Modi's next quest: BJP majority in the Rajya Sabha, Modi vs Trump: Why US President is missing wood for trees on India-US trade, Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi: A Study in Body Language, The full Narendra Modi interview to India Today. The third vote is that of Kandhal Jadeja, the NCP MLA from Kutiyana who has been voting for the BJP since 2017. How will the BJP get these additional 20 seats? The BJP has also been wishing for complete control over Amul Dairy, which had been under Congress control for several years, until former Congress MLA from Thasra Ramsinh Parmar, the chairman of Amul, defected to the BJP ahead of the 2017 RS polls. As of now, the Congress is four votes short of winning two seats, while the BJP needs two more votes to retain its three seats — assuming that both parties are able to get their entire flock to vote for the official candidate. The BJP’s not-so-unknown closeness to the NCP, which has a small presence in the state but has a significant role when voting numbers matter, is also a factor at play. There are four votes in the Assembly which both parties are eyeing to bridge the shortfall. However, the equations between the Vasavas and the Congress have changed since. In the 2019 Rajya Sabha elections, in which External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar was a candidate, the father-son duo voted against the Congress, although they denied it in public. Along with the allies, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) now has 350 parliamentarians in the 543-member Lok Sabha. The 2020 RS elections are looking very similar to the one in 2017, when the party had far lower numbers in the state Assembly. The fourth vote up for grabs is that of Jignesh Mevani, the Independent legislator who is a fierce critic of the BJP, and very close to the Congress’s Hardik Patel. Back then, Congress Leader of Opposition Shankersinh Vaghela had led the rebellion by quitting weeks before polling day, and six MLAs had followed him — leading to a close contest between Ahmed Patel and Rajput. However, they lost the byelections to their old seats to candidates of the Congress. Click here to join our channel (@ieexplained) and stay updated with the latest. Elections will also be held for a seat each from Manipur and Meghalaya. The party had hoped to leverage this tally to increase its numbers in the Upper House, but it has been losing both MLAs and ground to the BJP ever since. The party is looking at a stronger hold on Anand district, which has been a Congress bastion and is home to Bharatsinh Solanki as well as GPCC President Amit Chavda, and feels the NCP’s support can help its cause, which could also be a reason why the NCP replaced Vaghela as its state unit president to appoint former MLA from this district Jayant Patel alias Boskey. All rights reserved. Two Congress MLAs, Alpesh Thakor and his associate Dhavalsinh Zala too, cross-voted — and later quit the party and joined the BJP. Rajya Sabha Election - 2019; Return of Election (Form 23-B) Declaration of the Result (Form 21A) List of Validly Contesting Candidates (Form 7B) Notice of Withdrawal of Candidatures ()/() List of Validly Nominated Candidates ()/() Schedule - Biennial Elections to the Council of States from Tamil Nadu, 2019 The Congress will have to fight not just the BJP but also the disenchantment of its ranks with its leaders. Covid pandemic offers a chance to construct better buildings for future. BJP 1, NCP 2, Shiv Sena 1, Congress 1, RPA 1, Independent 1, Likely to retain or may gain, depends on political equation. The 2019 Lok Sabha election results delivered a historic mandate for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). However the Congress’s improved score in the Assembly elections that followed in December that year when it won 77 seats, against the BJP’s 99, gave it a better chance in the next Rajya Sabha election in 2019, where Union Minister Jaishankar was contesting.
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