The BJP’s biggest achievement came from Uttar Pradesh, where it won the assembly elections in March. The BJP won eight of the 11 Rajya Sabha seats that went to polls in India’s most populous state.
Digital Desk:The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP) effectively retained its tally of 95 seats in the Rajya Sabha with the
help of Independent MP Kartikeya Sharma after the latest round of biennial
elections, once again demonstrating the ruling exception ability to pull additional
votes and win crucial seats.
In the hotly contested elections in
Maharashtra and Karnataka, the BJP won three seats.Its candidates won in
Rajasthan and Haryana, and an independent candidate they backed in Haryana also
won. But, purely on numbers, it should have won two in Karnataka and
Maharashtra, and the independent candidate backed by it should not have won.
Thus, effectively, the party won three more seats than it was expected to.
The BJP’s climb in the Rajya Sabha had
uplifted its tally from 68 seats at the beginning of 2018 to 95 before this
round of biennial elections. However, after all the results are out, the ruling
party has effectively maintained that tally with the help of an independent in
Haryana.
The Congress’s net gain was one seat
in these elections. It won 10 out of the 57 seats that went to the polls.
However, the NDA’s tally went down by
one seat as the BJP’s ally, JD (U), saw a net loss of one seat. This is because
the JD (U) fought for two seats but won only one.
The
BJP’s biggest achievement came from Uttar Pradesh, where it won the assembly
elections in March. The BJP won eight of the 11 Rajya Sabha seats that went to
polls in India’s most populous state. The BJP won an additional three seats to
its earlier tally of five. This big victory in UP helped the BJP compensate for
losing three seats in Rajasthan and one seat each in Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand,
and Maharashtra.
The Congress’s net gain was one seat
in these elections. It won 10 out of the 57 seats that went to the polls. The
party gained three seats in Rajasthan and one in Chhattisgarh, while it lost a
seat each in Uttarakhand, Punjab, and Karnataka. In Haryana, its candidate,
Ajay Maken, failed to win.
The marginal increase could cheer the
Congress, which has lost many state elections to the BJP and some regional
parties. However, the losses in Haryana, Karnataka (where it could not strike a
deal with the JDS), and Maharashtra (where a Shiv Sena candidate from the MVA
alliance lost) will worry it. The other big plunge was by the Aam Aadmi Party
(AAP), cashing in on its victory in the Punjab elections. Arvind Kejriwal’s
party won Rajya Sabha seats of Punjab that went to polls in this round, taking
its Rajya Sabha tally to 10.
The DMK and the BJD retained 3 seats
each, and the SP and BSP lost two seats.
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