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EC announces elections for 24 Rajya Sabha seats from 10 States

The Election Commission on Friday announced elections for 24 Rajya Sabha seats on June 18 following the retirement of incumbents, including former prime minister HD Deve Gowda, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and party leader Digvijaya Singh, besides two Union ministers Ravneet Singh and George Kurian. In a statement, the EC said the elections for the Rajya Sabha seats will be held in 10 states where 24 incumbents are retiring on different dates beginning June 21 to July 19. Of the total 26 seats where elections are being held, the NDA currently has 18 and the Congress four while one seat is with the JMM and three are with the YSRCP.
The elections will be held for four seats each in Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat and Karnataka, three seats each in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, two in Jharkhand, and one seat each in Manipur, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram.In Andhra Pradesh, the TDP-led NDA in Andhra Pradesh is poised to win all the four Rajya Sabha seats falling vacant in June-July, 2026.The retiring members from the southern state include A Ayodhya Rami Reddy, P Subhaschandra Bose and S Satish Babu.In the state Assembly, TDP has 135 MLAs, followed by Janasena with 21 and BJP with 8, while YSRCP has 11 legislators
In Rajasthan, Rajya Sabha members Ravneet Singh, Neeraj Dangi (Congress) and Rajendra Gehlot (BJP) are among those completing their terms. Based on the present strength of the 200-member state Assembly, the BJP is expected to win two of the three seats, while the Congress is likely to secure one. 
The EC also announced bypolls for one seat each for the council of states from Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu. In Maharashtra, the seat fell vacant after the resignation of Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar, who has since been elected to the state Assembly.
According to information, the NDA is likely to lose one Rajya Sabha seat in the biennial elections for 26 seats in 12 states across the country, while the Congress-led opposition is set to gain three. 


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