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Rajya Sabha election: Samajwadi Get together chief Manoj Kumar Pandey steps down as Chief Whip, voting underway

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Within the midst of voting for the Rajya Sabha elections, Samajwadi Get together chief and MLA Manoj Kumar Pandey resigned from his place because the celebration’s chief whip within the Uttar Pradesh Meeting on Tuesday.

His resignation from the place was introduced barely at some point after eight Samajwadi Get together MLAs failed to indicate up for a gathering that the celebration Chief Akhilesh Yadav had referred to as.

Eight BJP candidates and three Samajwadi Get together candidates have utilized for the 10 Rajya Sabha seats from Uttar Pradesh because the voting has begun.

The principle opposition SP and the ruling BJP each have sufficient members to ship seven and three members to the Rajya Sabha, respectively, with out opposition. Nonetheless, for the reason that BJP is fielding an eighth candidate, a aggressive race is predicted in one of many seats.

The outcomes might be introduced by the tip of the day.

The BJP has put up seven different candidates which incorporates, former Union minister RPN Singh, former MP Chaudhary Tejveer Singh, basic secretary of the celebration’s Uttar Pradesh unit Amarpal Maurya, former state minister Sangeeta Balwant (Bind); former MLA Sadhna Singh, and former Agra mayor Naveen Jain.

Actor-turned-MP Jaya Bachchan, former IAS officer Alok Ranjan, and Dalit activist Ramji Lal Suman are the candidates formally nominated by the Samajwadi Get together.

In Uttar Pradesh, a candidate wants round 37 first-preference votes to be elected to the Rajya Sabha.

Voting will finish at 4 p.m., and counting will begin at 5 p.m.

With 252 and 108 members, respectively, the BJP and the SP have the vast majority of seats within the 403-member state meeting. The SP’s alliance associate, the Congress, holds two seats.

13 seats are held by the BJP ally Apna Dal (Sonelal), six by the NISHAD Get together, 9 by the RLD, six by the SBSP, two by Jansatta Dal Loktantrik, and one by the BSP. There are presently 4 open seats.

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