Elections to 55 Rajya Sabha seats falling vacant in April will be
held on March 26,2020, the Election Commission announced on Tuesday March 03,2020
Fifty-one of these 55 seats from 17 states are falling vacant on different dates in April due to retirement of sitting members, while 4 other seats are already vacant due to resignation of members.
The terms of the members who had resigned in the recent past were also ending in April 2020
The notification for the biennial elections will be issued on 6 March, 13 March is the last date of filing nominations. Counting will be held on the evening of 26 March, an hour after the conclusion of polls
Prominent among those retiring are
Rajya Sabha deputy chairman Harivansh (JD-U), Union minister Ramdas
Athawale (RPI-Athawale), Congress veteran Motilal Vora, former union
ministers Vijay Goel (BJP) and Kumari Selja (Cong), and former Madhya
Pradesh chief minister Digvijay Singh.
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the opposition Congress are expected to win most of the seats in the elections but the two will also see their strength diminished marginally. The Trinamool Congress and the YSR Congress Party are expected to make significant gains in the 245-member Upper House after the 26 March elections
Fifty-one of these 55 seats from 17 states are falling vacant on different dates in April due to retirement of sitting members, while 4 other seats are already vacant due to resignation of members.
The terms of the members who had resigned in the recent past were also ending in April 2020
- 7 vacancies are from Maharashtra
- 6 are from Tamil Nadu
- 5 from West Bengal and Bihar
- 4 each from Odisha, Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh
- 3 each from Assam, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan
- 2 each from Telangana, Chhattisgarh, Haryana and Jharkhand
- 1 each from Himachal Pradesh, Manipur and Meghalaya
The notification for the biennial elections will be issued on 6 March, 13 March is the last date of filing nominations. Counting will be held on the evening of 26 March, an hour after the conclusion of polls
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the opposition Congress are expected to win most of the seats in the elections but the two will also see their strength diminished marginally. The Trinamool Congress and the YSR Congress Party are expected to make significant gains in the 245-member Upper House after the 26 March elections
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