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New Delhi: There was heavy cross voting in the Rajya Sabha elections on Tuesday in three states Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Karnataka. Out of the three election states, the saffron color waved in Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh, while the BJP suffered a major setback in Karnataka. In Karnataka, Congress won three seats and BJP won one seat. However, the Sukhu government is in danger due to the defeat of Congress candidate Abhishek Manu Singhvi on the only seat in Himachal Pradesh. In Uttar Pradesh, BJP has won 8 out of 10 seats, while SP has won two seats. SP has lost one seat due to cross voting of seven members.
A total of 56 seats were vacant in the Rajya Sabha, including BJP President JP Nadda, former Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Union Ministers Ashwini Vaishnav and L. 41 candidates, including Murugan, were elected unopposed on 20 February. Of the remaining 15 seats, voting was held on 10 in Uttar Pradesh, four in Karnataka and one in Himachal Pradesh on Tuesday. Large-scale cross voting took place in the three states of Rajya Sabha elections, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and Himachal Pradesh, which benefited BJP and Congress. However, Congress has suffered such a big blow due to cross voting in Himachal that the Sukhu government is in trouble.
In Himachal Pradesh, BJP has fielded Harda Mahajan from Congress against senior Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi. In the 68-member Himachal Assembly, Congress has 40 MLAs and BJP 25, while 3 independent MLAs support the Congress. However, in the elections held on Tuesday, after both Abhishek Manu Singhvi and Harsh Mahajan got 34-34 votes, Harsh Mahajan was declared the winner. In this election, nine Congress MLAs voted in favor of Harsh Mahajan by cross voting.
Similarly, in Uttar Pradesh too, cross voting has increased the concern of Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav. There were 11 candidates in the fray for 10 seats in Uttar Pradesh. In Uttar Pradesh, 7 members of BJP and 3 members of SP could have been elected unopposed. But BJP had to field the eighth member in the elections. In Uttar Pradesh, seven SP MLAs cross-voted and BJP won 8 seats, while SP won two seats. In Uttar Pradesh, seven MLAs, including SP Chief Whip Manoj Pandey, cross-voted, while Maharaj Devi did not come to vote. In this way SP lost 8 votes.
Karnataka too had five candidates in the fray for four seats, including JD-SK's D Kupendra Reddy, Congress's Ajay Maken, GC Chandrashekhar and Syed Nasir Hussain and BJP's Narayanasa K. Shipping included. In Karnataka, BJP MLA ST Somashekhar voted for Ajay Maken, while another MLA A. Shivram Habbar abstained from voting. As a result, only one BJP candidate won while Congress won three seats. Out of 56 Rajya Sabha seats, 41 candidates won unopposed, including 20 from BJP, 6 from Congress, 4 from Trinamool Congress, 3 from YSR Congress, 2 from RJD, 2 from BJD and one each from NCP, Shiv Sena, BRS and JDU. Are included. -You.
