Polls in 4 States today for Rajya Sabha

Polls for 16 Rajya Sabha seats in four States will be held on Friday. Amid allegations of attempts at horse-trading by rival parties which have corralled their MLAs. Prompting the EC to appoint special observers and order videography of the entire exercise.

Prominent among those whose electoral fate will be decided are Union Ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal,. Congress candidates Randeep Surjewala, Jairam Ramesh and Mukul Wasnik, and Shiv Sena’s ubiquitous face Sanjay Raut. All these leaders are expected to win without a hiccup.

Elections will be held for 16 seats of Haryana, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Karnataka on Friday as the number of candidates exceeds the seats going to the polls. Political parties in Maharashtra, where polling will be held for six seats, were on Thursday engaged in hectic parleys to fine-tune their strategy. In Haryana, the contest has become keen for the second seat with entry of media baron Kartikeya Sharma. In Karnataka, the Congress and JD(S) continued to wrangle over the fourth seat. Polling will be held for four Rajya Sabha seats in Rajasthan.