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Thursday, December 21, 2017

2017 Gujarat Assembly Elections Results - Narrow win in Gujarat to cost BJP two Rajya Sabha seats

BJP on Monday Dec 18,2017 won Gujarat but its winning tally won't help the party retain all its Rajya Sabha  seats from the state when the Upper House goes to biennial polls to elect over 50 members from 14 states in March 2018

Four of the party's RS members from Gujarat will retire on April 2, 2018. Having bagged 99 assembly seats, the party will be able to retain only two seats (36 MLAs vote for one RS seat) with the remaining two going to Congress.

The four BJP MPs who will retire from the RS after completion of their term in April include Arun Jaitley (Union finance minister), Parshottam Rupala, Mansukh Mandaviya and Shankarbhai Vegad.

At present, 9 out of the 11 RS members from the state are from BJP.

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After next year's biennial election, its tally will be reduced to 7

BJP will, however, improve its tally in the RS after the biennial poll with the help of the party's strength in the UP and Maharashtra assemblies. It will gain seven seats from UP and two from Maharashtra, taking the NDA's tally from 84 to nearly 100 next year.


The Himachal Pradesh Assembly Election result on Monday Dec 18,2017 will help BJP comfortably retain its seat in the state next year. Union health minister J P Nadda will retire as an RS member from Himachal on April 2

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