NEW DELHI: Elections to fifteen Rajya Sabha seats throughout 3 states had been held on Tuesday amid rampant cross-voting and political drama.
In the 4 Rajya Sabha seats in Karnataka, the Congress received 3 seats whereas the BJP bagged one. One BJP MLA cross-voted for the Congress whereas one other abstained from the election.
Of the ten Rajya Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP bagged 8 seats whereas the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party managed to win 2 seats.The elections right here too noticed loads of cross-voting, with at the very least 7 SP MLAs voting for BJP candidates.
Contest for the lone Rajya Sabha seat in Himachal Pradesh noticed essentially the most political twists because the BJP managed to win the seat after 6 Congress MLAs and three impartial MLAs cross-voted for the BJP candidate.
Big win for Congress in Karnataka
In a significant win for the ruling Congress, all three of its Rajya Sabha candidates secured the requisite variety of votes to win their respective seats from Karnataka, after one BJP MLA cross-voted for the ruling social gathering and one other abstained.

Karnataka deputy chief minister D.Okay. Shivakumar stated: “This shows the unity and integrity of Congress. I thank all the MLAs, party workers and the media. I’m very happy to inform you that all Congress candidates have won. I thank all voters, CM and party workers and the AICC President also. I would like to thank Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge.”

Congress candidates Naseer Hussain and former union minister Ajay Maken received with 47 votes, whereas G C Chandrashekhar secured 45 votes. The BJP received 1 Rajya Sabha seat from the state with candidate Narayansa Bhandage securing 47 votes. The BJP-JD(S) candidate D Kupendra Reddy misplaced the polls.
In a setback to the BJP-JD(S) alliance, saffron social gathering MLA S T Somashekar voted for Maken whereas MLA Arbail Shivaram Hebbar abstained from voting within the Rajya Sabha elections.
BJP sweeps UP
The BJP received 8 out of 10 Rajya Sabha seats from Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday whereas the Samajwadi Party was in a position to safe 2 seats, amid an enormous cross-voting upset as 7 MLAs of Akhilesh Yadav, one MLA of SBSP and certainly one of Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party voted for the BJP.

Uttar Pradesh deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya stated: “We had been saying from the beginning that all 8 candidates of the BJP will win. All our 8 candidates have won today. I congratulate all the winning candidates.”
The BJP had the numbers to win seven of the ten seats however fielded eight candidates, forcing a contest on one seat, banking on votes from the Jayant Chaudhary’s Rashtriya Lok Dal and the SP rebels.
Major upset in Himachal for Congress
The Congress suffered a significant blow in Himachal Pradesh within the Rajya Sabha elections after a number of social gathering MLAs cross-voted in favour of BJP.

Congress candidate Abhishek Manu Singhvi misplaced the polls to BJP’s Harsh Mahajan. The Congress stated 9 MLAs cross-voted within the elections.
Both the candidates bagged 34 votes every after which the BJP chief was declared winner by draw of heaps.
It is a significant jolt for the Congress which has 40 MLAs within the 68-member state meeting and claimed help of the independents.
(With inputs from businesses)