The BJP party in Uttar Pradesh is all set to increase its tally in the biennial elections for the Rajya Sabha. The election is scheduled for April to 13 seats that are vacant.
In the 245-member Upper House of Parliament, Uttar Pradesh has 31 seats being the most populous state in the country. Nine Rajya Sabha seats are due to fall vacant in Uttar Pradesh in April.
The seats are held by Naresh Agarwal, Jaya Bachchan, Kiranmay Nanda, Chaudhary Munwar Saleem, Alok Tiwari and Darshan Singh Yadav (all SP), Munquad Ali (BSP), Pramod Tiwari (Congress) and Vinay Katiyar (BJP). Their term ends on April 2.
The BJP and its allies have 325 seats in the 403-member Assembly: Samajwadi Party – 47 MLAs, the BSP – 19, the Congress – 7 and the RLD only one. During the previous biennial elections, the SP managed to win six seats by dint of its strength in the state Assembly, whose members are voters in the indirect poling.
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But this time around, the saffron surge during the Assembly polls will leave a mark in the Rajya Sabha elections, and the party is all set to bag a majority of the seats going by its strength, said UP minister Brijesh Pathak.
Among the MLCs whose terms are coming to an end on May 5 are Akhilesh Yadav, former UP Chief Minister and national president of SP, Umar Ali Khan, Naresh Chandra Uttam, Madhu Gupta, Rajendra Chaudhary, Ramsakal Gurjar and Dr Vijay Yadav.
Though the BJP is poised to wrest a majority of the seats falling vacant, it still might not give the party the required strength in the Legislative Council to push bills and get them passed.
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