By way of PTI
NEW DELHI: Forward of the June 10 Rajya Sabha elections, Congress president Sonia Gandhi has appointed senior celebration leaders, together with Mallikarjun Kharge and Bhupesh Baghel, as observers.
Whilst Kharge has been made the observer for Maharashtra, Baghel and Rajeev Shukla had been made observers for Haryana, and Pawan Kumar Bansal and T S Singh Deo for Rajasthan.
The Congress is looking for to make sure that its applicants win the Rajya Sabha (RS) elections in Haryana, Rajasthan and Maharashtra, whilst the BJP has put its weight at the back of unbiased applicants in Haryana and Rajasthan.
AICC basic secretary Ajay Maken is the Congress candidate from Haryana, the place two seats have fallen vacant.
The Congress and the BJP are more likely to get one seat every, however the BJP has sponsored media baron Kartikeya Sharma as an unbiased.
Sharma is the son of Venod Sharma and son-in-law of former Haryana Speaker Kuldeep Sharma.
Each are thought to be on the subject of former Haryana leader minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda.
Congress wishes 31 votes to win the seat and has as many MLAs.
The Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) is banking on cross-voting.
For the 4 Rajya Sabha seats in Rajasthan, the Congress has fielded 3 applicants — Randeep Surjewala, Mukul Wasnik and Pramod Tiwari.
Whilst Congress is bound to get two seats, it wishes 15 extra votes to win the 3rd seat of Tiwari.
The BJP has fielded its former minister Ghanshyam Tiwari, and sponsored media baron Subhash Chandra as an unbiased for the second one seat.
In Maharashtra, the Shiv Sena and the BJP will struggle it out for the 6th seat of Rajya Sabha as not one of the seven applicants within the fray — 4 of the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) and 3 of the BJP — withdrew their nominations on Friday.
The Congress has additionally fielded every other candidate Mansoor Ali Khan in Karnataka, the place the election shall be hung on June 10 for 4 seats.
Jairam Ramesh is the opposite Congress candidate.
The Congress is anticipating 3 seats in Rajasthan and the BJP is anticipating one in all its personal and is supporting an unbiased and Subhash Chandra for the fourth seat.
In the meantime, just about 70 Congress MLAs from Rajasthan are tenting at a resort in Udaipur forward of the Rajya Sabha elections to the 4 seats by which the celebration fears horse-trading via the opposition BJP, celebration resources stated.
The Congress, with its 108 MLAs within the state meeting, is about to win two seats.
After successful the 2 seats, the celebration may have 26 surplus votes, 15 in need of the specified 41 to win the 3rd seat.
Then again, the BJP has 71 MLAs within the state meeting and is about to win one seat and then it is going to be left with 30 surplus votes.
The Congress has additionally shifted its MLAs in Haryana to a hotel in Raipur in Congress-ruled Chhattisgarh.
Of the 57 vacancies in Rajya Sabha, 41 applicants in 11 states have thus far been elected unopposed.
The elections shall be held for 16 seats in 4 states of Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Haryana and Karnataka.
