Congress Wins 3 Seats In Rajasthan, Midnight Drama In Haryana: 10 Facts

The large fights happened in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Rajasthan and Haryana, with experiences of cross voting coming in from three states.

Counting was held up in two states — Haryana and Maharashtra – for over eight hours amid complaints of cross-voting and guidelines violation.

In Maharashtra, the place counting of votes was vastly delayed, the ruling alliance of Shiv Sena, Sharad Pawar’s NCP and the Congress, suffered a setback with the BJP profitable a 3rd seat in a straight struggle in opposition to the Sena. The alliance gained three seats, and the BJP three.

Earlier, each BJP and the Shiv Sena had met the Election Fee, alleging cross voting and in search of disqualification of votes. The BJP questioned the validity of ballots solid by three MLAs of the ruling alliance. The Maha Vikas Aghadi, too, sought to invalidate two votes, one by a BJP MLA and one other by an impartial.

Haryana turned out an upset for the Congress, with one of many two seats gained by the BJP and the opposite by Kartikeya Sharma, the media baron and Impartial candidate it backed. Ajay Maken, for whom the celebration initially claimed a victory, misplaced.

The state’s s ruling BJP had initially sought cancellation of the votes of two Congress members, alleging that two Congress MLAs confirmed their poll papers to unauthorised individuals. Ajay Maken additionally wrote to the Election Fee, alleging the BJP’s objection was “false and frivolous”.

In Rajasthan, the Congress gained three of the 4 Rajya Sabha seats, with cross-voting by BJP members. One seat has gone to the BJP.

Congress candidates Mukul Wasnik and Randeep Surjewala received further votes. So did BJP candidate Ghanshyam Tiwari. Zee chairman Subhash Chandra, backed by the BJP, misplaced. One vote was rejected.

In Karnataka, the BJP gained three seats and the Congress one. HD Kumaraswamy’s Janata Dal Secular, whose house base the state is, misplaced the seat they’d. BJP’s Nirmala Sitharaman, Jaggesh and Lehar Singh Siroya took three out of the 4 seats, whereas the Congress’s Jairam Ramesh gained the remaining one.

In Rajya Sabha 57 seats throughout 15 states had fallen vacant. The utmost, 11, are in Uttar Pradesh. It’s adopted by Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu (6 every), Bihar (5), Karnataka, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh (4 every), Madhya Pradesh and Odisha (3 every)  Punjab, Jharkhand, Haryana, Chhattisgarh and Telangana (2 every) and one seat from Uttarakhand. Forty-one candidates had been elected unopposed.