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Rajya Sabha election results became the morale booster for the ruling National Democratic Alliance.
Rajya Sabha polls for 57 seats were held across 15 states. While 41 members in 11 states were elected not to run, elections were held for 16 seats in four states on Friday due to the presence of more candidates than available vacancies in the state. each of these states.
The BJP manages to retain 22 of the 24 Rajya Sabha seats it holds in the biennial polls and also secures an independent party’s victory, underscoring its entanglement among lawmakers who do not affiliated and disgruntled lawmakers in the opposition.
The BJP’s better-than-expected performance once again highlighted the disagreement and lack of cohesion within the opposing ranks from Maharashtra to Karnataka and Haryana.
The party’s gamble to force an election in these states beyond Rajasthan by backing independent candidates or pitching its own candidates to benefit from divisions in the ranks of its opponents I made a profit when each state got one more seat in all states that banned Rajasthan.
(With input from agencies)