No more ‘achhe din’ for BJP as its RS strength set to decline!

New Delhi: Elections have been announced for 57 Rajya Sabha seats. Elections are to be held on these seats on June 10 next month and it is being claimed that BJP seats will increase in the Upper House. It is also being said that after the Lok Sabha, the BJP is now moving towards a majority in the Rajya Sabha as well. However, there is no increase in BJP’s seats under normal circumstances. Its number of seats will remain the same as before or there will be a decrease of one seat in it. Yes, if the BJP nominates such people on all the seven vacant seats of the nominated category, who declare themselves as members of the BJP as soon as they take oath, then the BJP will have the advantage of three seats. Four of the seven retired MPs were members of the BJP and Mary Kom, Chhatrapati Sambhaji and Narendra Jadhav kept themselves independent.

Among the states where Rajya Sabha elections are to be held, the BJP will have the advantage of only three seats in Uttar Pradesh, but it will have to bear the loss of seats in Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Jharkhand and Telangana. In Uttar Pradesh, 11 seats are falling vacant, out of which five seats belong to the BJP and it will get three additional seats this time. In this way, the party will have the advantage of three seats in Uttar Pradesh. Apart from this, BJP will have the advantage of one seat in Uttarakhand, where Pradeep Tamta of Congress is retiring. Apart from these four seats, the BJP has no advantage in any state.

The BJP will suffer the maximum loss of three seats each in Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh. All the four seats falling vacant in Rajasthan belong to the BJP. According to the position of the parties in the assembly, this time the Congress can win three seats. The Congress-led government has 125 MLAs and needs 41 votes to win a seat. Meanwhile, four seats are falling vacant in Andhra Pradesh, out of which three seats are of BJP. This time all the four seats will go to the account of YSR Congress. Three out of six seats falling vacant in Maharashtra belong to the BJP, but this time it will be able to win only two seats and will lose one seat.

Of the two seats falling vacant in Chhattisgarh, one seat belongs to the BJP but it will not be able to win a single seat this time rather will lose one seat. Two seats are falling vacant in Jharkhand, out of which BJP will be able to win only one seat this time. So, there will also be a loss of one seat. Apart from these, in the states where elections are held, the number of BJP seats in Bihar, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Haryana will remain constant. That is, the more people who retire, the more people will come back again. In this way, BJP is gaining four seats in two states and losing nine seats in five states. Even if we add the advantage of three seats in the nominated category, the gain is seven and the loss is nine. So, BJP’s seats are going to remain fixed at one hundred only