Voting for the five Rajya Sabha seats from West Bengal is underway in the Assembly here, with six candidates, including Congress nominee Abhishek Manu Singhvi, in the fray.
A candidate requires 49 votes to win a Rajya Sabha seat from the state. Polling started at 9 am.
The Trinamool Congress (TMC), which has fielded four candidates--Nadimul Haque, who was renominated, Subhasish Chakraborty, Abir Biswas and Santunu Sen -- has announced its support to Congress' Singhvi for the fifth seat.
Senior CPI(M) leader Rabin Deb is contesting as the Left Front candidate for the fifth seat.
The Congress has 42 MLAs in the 295-member West Bengal Legislative Assembly while the Left Front had 32 legislators, but two of them joined the TMC.
Election to the five Rajya Sabha seats from the state was necessitated as the terms of Kunal Ghosh, Bibek Gupta and Nadimul Haque of the TMC and Tapan Sen of CPI(M) will end on April 2.
Mukul Roy, who quit the TMC and joined the BJP last year, has already resigned from the Rajya Sabha.
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