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NDA touches majority mark in Rajya Sabha after 12 members get elected unopposed

| @indiablooms | Aug 28, 2024, at 04:01 am

New Delhi/IBNS: The ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) reached the majority mark in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday as nine BJP leaders and two from allies were elected unopposed in the by-polls for the upper house.

With this, BJP's strength has reached 96, taking NDA to 112  in the upper house.

Among the three others to get elected unopposed were one each from NDA allies NCP faction of Ajit Pawar faction and Rashtriya Lok Manch.

The ruling alliance also has the support of six nominated and one independent member.

One member of the Congress got elected as well, taking the Opposition numbers in the Upper House to 85.

Rajya Sabha has 245 seats, though currently there are eight vacancies which include four from Jammu and Kashmir and four nominated. With the house's current strength of 237, the majority mark is 119.

The BJP candidates elected unopposed included Mission Ranjan Dass and Rameshwar Teli from Assam, Manan Kumar Mishra from Bihar, Kiran Chaudhary from Haryana, George Kurien from Madhya Pradesh, Dhirya Sheel Patil from Maharashtra, Mamata Mohanta from Odisha, Ravneet Singh Bittu from Rajasthan and Rajeev Bhattacharjee from Tripura.

Congress's Abhishek Manu Singhvi was elected unopposed from Telangana. NCP Ajit Pawar faction's Nitin Patil got elected from Maharashtra and RLM's Updendra Kushwaha made it to the upper house from Bihar.

A majority mark in the Rajya Sabha for which the NDA has been trying for a decade, is going to make the passage of contentious bills painless.

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