news details |
|
|
| Elections to 4 J&K Rajya Sabha seats likely after nomination of 5 MLAs | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 27: Even as former Chief Minister and National Conference president Dr. Farooq Abdullah has expressed his anger against the inordinate delay in conducting elections to the four Rajya Sabha seats, elections for these four seats of the Upper House of Parliament would be held after the nomination of five MLAs.
As there is no deadline for conducting elections for four vacant Rajya Sabha seats from Jammu and Kashmir, the BJP leadership would conduct elections only after nominating five MLAs.
Secondly, bye-elections to two vacant Assembly seats would be held before April 21 because newly elected MLAs took oath on October 21, 2024. As per the provision, bye-elections to the vacant seats would be held within six months.
Highly placed sources said that BJP’s central leadership is very particular about increasing its strength in the Upper House of the Parliament so the party would not take any chance in Jammu and Kashmir.
“Increasing strength in the Rajya Sabha is a must for BJP to pass crucial bills in the Parliament so the party would take every step to win two seats from Jammu and Kashmir”, a source said.
Keeping in view the party’s strength in the Assembly, the BJP is in a position to easily win one Rajya Sabha seat, but the party’s central leadership is focussing on the second seat.
As per the strength in the Assembly, the BJP has surplus numbers after easily winning one Rajya Sabha seat, so that party would try to win a second seat with There is every possibility of Rajya Sabha elections being held in J&K only after LG nomiates five MLAs.
BJP’s central leadership is very particular about increasing its strength in the Upper House of the Parliament.
Keeping in view the party’s strength in the Assembly, the BJP is in a position to easily win one Rajya Sabha seat.
Four Rajya Sabha seats allotted to J&K have been vacant since February 2021.
As reported earlier, Dr. Farooq Abdullah has expressed his anguish over the delay in announcing elections for four Rajya Sabha seats in Jammu and Kashmir.
“I don’t know why they are depriving the people of Jammu and Kashmir that their voice should be raised in the Rajya. Time has come for people to represent the people of J&K in the Rajya Sabha”, he said, adding, “This is another factor. Where is the democracy, it pains us”.
The four Rajya Sabha seats allotted to Jammu and Kashmir have been vacant since February 2021, following the expiration of the terms of the previous members, including Ghulam Nabi Azad, Shamsher Singh Manhas, Nazir Ahmad Laway and Fayaz Ahmad Mir.
Typically, Rajya Sabha elections are conducted by the Election Commission of India based on the strength of elected representatives in the legislative assembly.
As per numbers in the present Assembly, the NC-Congress coalition comprising some Independents and two MLAs of CPM and Aam Aadmi Party has the strength to easily win two Rajya Sabha seats. Similarly, the BJP can easily win one Rajya Sabha seat but the party has surplus votes after winning one seat so the central leadership of the BJP would try to win another seat.
In the Assembly polls held after a decade in Jammu and Kashmir, the National Conference won 42 seats, Congress six, BJP 29, PDP three and one each by the People's Conference, CPI-M, and AAP. Seven independents also emerged victorious. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
