Rajya Sabha elections: BJP wins 8 out of 16 seats, Congress sweeps Rajasthan

The highstakes Rajya Sabha elections in four states on Friday Maharashtra Haryana Rajasthan and Karnataka turned out to be a nailbiting contest with Bharatiya Janata Party posting a win in three states while the Congress swept RajasthanPolling took place for 16 vacant seats in Rajya Sabha in Rajasthan Haryana Karnataka and Maharashtra on June 10 The counting of votes was delayed for several houses in Haryana and Maharashtra with rival parties trading chargesHeres a look at the statewise results of the electionsRajasthan In a big morale boost for the Congress following the dismal performance in the recentlyconcluded Assembly elections in five states the party bagged all three Rajya Sabha seats in the elections amid allegations of horsetrading while the BJP bagged one seatCongress candidates had fielded Mukul Wasnik Randeep Surjewala and Pramod Tiwari while BJPs Ghanshyam Tiwari and media baron Subhash Chandra as independent were in the fray for four vacant seats Citing fears of crossvoting the Congress had gathered its MLAs in a resort in Udaipur This is the win of Sonia Gandhi Rahul Gandhi and Gehlot government This is the defeat of those powers who wanted to buy Rajasthans selfrespect in vote market destabilize elected state government run a bulldozer on democracy Money and muscle power income tax ED black money lost said Surjewala after the poll winExplaining the number game in the elections Congress leader Raghu Sharma said All 126 votes of Congress have gone to Congress BJP wanted to indulge in horse trading but nothing could happen BJP had 71 votes and RLP had 3 But they did not even get 74 full votes got 73 This shows BJP is broken crossvoting happened at their end Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot alleged that the BJP attempted to indulge in horsetrading but it did not succeed As I had said we will win all 3 seats Everyone knew Congress had full votes and BJP did not Then why did they even nominate candidates This means they wanted to indulge in horsetrading which could not happen here Gehlot saidMaharashtraIn Maharashtra BJP was certain to get two seats but the party managed to secure a third seat as well with the help of Independents Union Minister Piyush Goyal former state minister Anil Bonde and Dhananjay Mahadik from the BJP emerged victorious while one candidate each from Shiv Sena Congress and Nationalist Congress Party NCP won 285 votes were polled on Friday and 41 were needed to win one Rajya Sabha seatShiv Senas Sanjay Raut NCPs Praful Patel and Congresss Imran Pratapgarhi were elected without any hassle However all eyes were on the contest for the sixth seat where the BJP has fielded Dhananjay Mahadik and Sanjay Pawar was in fray as the Shiv Sena candidate Mahadiks came as a setback for Shiv Sena which was hoping to get two seats in the Rajya Sabha electionsCommenting on the poll results NCP chief Sharad Pawar said he was not surprised with the results The result doesnt surprise me Congress Shiv Sena NCP have been voted as per the quota except NCPs Praful Patel who has received an extra vote that vote is not from MVA its from the other side We had fewer votes for the sixth seat but Shiv Sena fielded its candidate and tried to make him win BJP had the support of many independents MLAs and we had only a fewDevendra Fadnavis attempts to take Independents with BJP were successful This result will not have any effect on the stability of our government Before the polling day the All India MajliseIttehadul Muslimeen AIMIM has extended support to Maha Vikas Aghadi MVA and said its two MLAs in Maharashtra will vote for Congress candidate Imran Pratapgarhi with an aim to defeat the BJPAlso Read EC sided with BJP as it got our one vote invalidated alleges Sanjay Raut after party candidates defeat in Rajya Sabha pollsThe counting of votes began after 1 am on Saturday following the order of the Election Commission The counting could not start at its scheduled time on Friday after the BJP approached the EC alleging rules violation by three MLAs of MVA On the other hand the MVA had challenged the vote of one BJP MLA After the counting Sanjay Raut alleged that the Election Commission favoured the BJP Election Commission made our one vote invalid We objected to two votes but no action was taken on that Election Commission favoured them BJP he saidKarnatakaBJP won three seats in Rajya Sabha the Congress one seat while the Janata Dal Secular drew a blank after the results of elections to the Upper House of Parliament were declared on Friday Six candidates were in the fray for four Rajya Sabha seats from Karnataka All three BJP candidates Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman actorturnedpolitician Jaggesh and Member of Legislative Council Lehar Singh Siroyaand Congress leader Jairam Ramesh won the elections JDS Kupendra Reddy and Congress candidate Mansoor Ali Khan suffered the defeatJanata Dal Secular chief HD Kumaraswamy on Friday alleged horsetrading in the Karnataka Rajya Sabha elections claiming that Congress leader Siddaramaiah was pressurising JDS MLAs to not vote for their own party but that of the candidate of the grand old party JDS MLA K Srinivasa Gowda admitted said that he voted in favour of Congress Haryana In Haryana BJP scored a comfortable victory winning one of the two seats BJPs Krishan Lal Panwar registered victory after 31 votes were polled in his favour The interesting contest was between Congress Ajay Maken and BJPbacked independent candidate Kartikeya Sharma However Maken lost the Rajya Sabha elections to Sharma the BJPbacked independent candidate by a narrow margin a huge shock for the grand old party which was confident of winning the seatPolling was held on June 10 to elect two members to the Upper House of Parliament from Haryana Amid allegations of crossvoting and rule violations the counting of votes was delayed and there was a recounting of votes that went on past midnight Out of 90 MLAs in the Haryana Legislative Assembly independent candidate Balraj Kundu abstained and a vote apparently of Congress MLA Kuldeep Bishnoi was rejected leaving 88 votes valid Sharma who was backed by the BJP and its ally Jannayak Janata Party JJP got 296 votes while Maken received 29 votes Commenting on Congress MLA Kuldeep Bishnoi whose vote was rejected Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said that he voted openly after listening to his inner conscienceThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever