Rajya Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: Himachal Pradesh CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu had earlier claimed that ‘5-6 Congress MLAs were taken away by a convoy of CRPF and Haryana Police.”
Three Congress candidates from Karnataka, along with one from BJP, secured victories in the Rajya Sabha elections that took place on Tuesday (February 27). There were five candidates for the four Rajya Sabha seats from the state. All three of Congress’ candidates– former Union Minister Ajay Maken, and current Rajya Sabha MPs Syed Nasir Hussain and G C Chandrashekar– won, BJP candidate and former MLC Narayansa Bhadage won while Kupendra Reddy, the JD(S) nominee lost. The BJP-JDS alliance suffered a jolt as at least one BJP MLA voted for the Congress.
Amid cross-voting concerns, along with the resignation of Manoj Kumar Pandey as Samajwadi Party’s chief whip, former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav said, “Those looking to profit from situation will leave”. Before casting his vote, Yadav alleged that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would resort to any means to win elections, adding that action will be taken against “such MLAs”. SP senior leader Pandey on Tuesday resigned from the post of party’s Chief Whip, ahead of the voting. In Uttar Pradesh, the BJP is expected to win seven seats without any competition, while the Samajwadi Party is likely to win three. But the saffron party’s nomination of businessman-turned-politician Sanjay Seth for the eighth seat introduces a potential contest. Seth, an industrialist and former SP leader, joined the BJP in 2019.