Rajya Sabha Poll

Two candidates, one from the Left Democratic Front (LDF) and the other from the Opposition Congress, have filed nomination for the August 24 by-election

In Madhya Pradesh, the BJP won two seats and the Congress bagged one seat while in Rajasthan, it was the other way around with the Congress emerging victorius in two

Prakash secured 31 votes, while Soren, a former chief minister, won 30

Fearing poaching, the party in the last couple of days shifted its legislators to various resorts in Gujarat, dividing them in zone-wise groups

Congress MLA Gulab Singh Rajput said that those who wanted to betray people left the party

The Rajya Sabha election is slated for June 19

June 9 is the last date for filing nominations and all the three parties are yet to finalise their candidates

Nomination of former CJI to Rajya Sabha a grave blow

The party had sent a list of 20 to 22 names, including that of national general secretaries Ram Madhav and Kailash Vijayvargiya, to its Central poll panel to pick two candidates for the RS polls.

Scindia and Digvijay Singh are expected to comfortably win in the polls. The BJP's Sumer Singh Solanki and Phool Singh Baraiya of the Congress are likely to slug it out for the third seat.

The RJD-Congress combine seem poised to wrest two of the five Rajya Sabha seats for which elections will be held from the ruling JD(U)-BJP alliance

It is felt that declaring a particular Bill as Money Bill by the Lok Sabha Speaker must not leave any scope for doubt.

The deaths of BJP stalwart Arun Jaitley and noted lawyer Ram Jethmalani, who was a RJD MP to the Rajya Sabha from Bihar, necessitated the bypolls

An election petition is a procedure to call into question the election results of parliamentary, Assembly or local elections

The implications of by-polls will favour the BJP in the Upper House where it is short of a numerical majority but has an operational majority