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Rajya Sabha polls: Fearing horse trading by BJP, nearly 70 Congress MLAs camp in Udaipur
•After winning two seats, the Congress will have 26 surplus votes, 15 short of the required 41 to win the third seat
BJP first party since 1990 to touch 100-seat mark in Rajya Sabha
•The BJP's tally, despite way short of majority in the 245-member House, highlights its continuous rise since Prime Minister Narendra Modi led it to its majority in Lok Sabha in the 2014 polls
AAP’s mixed bag for Rajya Sabha: Ex-cricketer Harbhajan Singh, Raghav Chadha, IIT professor
Fp Explainers •At 33, AAP’s Raghav Chadha is set to become the youngest Rajya Sabha MP. Joining Chadha will be educationist Ashok Kumar Mittal, industrialist Sanjeev Arora, former cricketer Harbhajan Singh and IIT-Delhi professor Sandeep Pathak
'Party who played horse-trading game for 55 yrs blaming us': Rajasthan BJP dares Congress to prove poaching allegation ahead of RS polls
•A day after the ruling Congress in Rajasthan alleged that attempts were being made to poach its legislators ahead of the Rajya Sabha polls, the state BJP on Thursday challenged the party to prove the allegation.
Ashok Gehlot slams BJP-led Opposition for indulging in 'horse-trading' to destabilise Rajasthan govt ahead of RS polls
•Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot slammed the BJP-led opposition for 'indulging in horse-trading' and stated that 'everyone is united'.
BJP trying to destabilise Rajasthan government, alleges Congress, moves MLAs to resort in Jaipur
•The Congress on Wednesday charged the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with attempting to destabilise the Rajasthan government even as party MLAs were taken to a luxury resort in Jaipur for a meeting called by Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot
Former prime minister HD Deve Gowda files nomination for 19 June Rajya Sabha elections from Karnataka
•Speaking to reporters after filing his nomination, Gowda thanked the Congress' central leadership and leaders of several like-minded political parties who wanted him to contest and said he would continue to work for strengthening secular forces at the national level.
Deve Gowda to contest 19 June Rajya Sabha polls from Karnataka 'at Sonia Gandhi's request', says HD Kumaraswamy
•Janata Dal (Secular) patriarch HD Deve Gowda has decided to contest the 19 June Rajya Sabha elections from Karnataka, and will be filing his nominations on 9 June, his son and former chief minister HD Kumaraswamy said
Ahead of Rajya Sabha polls, Karnataka govt faces internal dissent, but Congress wary of fishing in troubled waters
Fp Staff •The Karnataka government, which already has its hands full with the COVID-19 crisis, is now having to deal with the possibility of dissidence from some BJP MLAs.
Day after two Congress MLAs quit, yet another Grand Old Party legislator resigns ahead of Rajya Sabha polls in Gujarat
•In a fresh jolt to the Congress ahead of the Rajya Sabha polls in Gujarat, its MLA Brijesh Merja on Friday resigned from the Assembly membership, becoming the third legislator of the opposition party to quit this week.