House-proud MPs: RS elections have a lot of intricate politics behind them

The results of the Rajya Sabha election will come out on June 10

Some big guns have been silenced but new ones will roar. In the monsoon session of Parliament, new faces will be seen in the Rajya Sabha, while many old ones will be absent. The politics around the new nominees, those who have been nominated for another term and those who have been dropped, is complex and involved.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has an unwritten rule: That an MP who has served three terms will not be sent to the Rajya Sabha again. Former Union Minister Prakash Javadekar, who had completed three terms from Maharashtra and has bowed out, may feel