Elections for 19 Rajya Sabha seats spread across eight states will be held on Friday with the contest in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan promising to be a close affair between the BJP and the Congress.
Voting for 18 seats were deferred due to the coronavirus pandemic. Later the Election Commission announced polls for fours seats in Karnataka and one seat each in Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh.
Of the 19 seats where polling will be held, four each are from Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat, three each from Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, two from Jharkhand, and one each from Manipur, Mizoram and Meghalaya.
Kennedy Cornelius Khyriem of the Congress and Wanweiroy Kharlukhi of the National People’s Party are in the fray for one seat in Meghalaya. The contest for one seat in Manipur will be between Congress candidate Tongbram Mangibabu Singh and BJP’s Maharaja Sanajaoba Leishemba. The contest for one seat in Mizoram would be between Dr. Lallianchhunga of the Congress, K. Vanlalvena of the Mizo National Front and B. Lalchhanzova of the Zoram People’s Movement.
Polling will be held for three seats in Rajasthan, with the BJP’s Onkar Singh Lakhawat and Rajendra Gehlot and the Congress’s Neeraj Dangi and K.C. Venugopal in the fray.
