New Delhi: On June 10, elections to 52 Rajya Sabha seats spread across 15 states will take place the election commission informed on Thursday. The maximum number of seats, 11, lie in Uttar Pradesh. Followed by Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra – six seats each are up for election in each state.
The biennial elections to these seats are taking place as members are retiring between June and August.
Seats vacated by BJP’s Nirmala Sitharaman and Congress’ P Chidambaram in Karnataka and Maharashtra will also go for polls.
Elections are due in other states including Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Bihar, Jharkhand and Haryana.
Last month BJP crossed the 100 mark in the upper house of parliament following the biennial elections. It became the first party to do so since 1990.
The party won three more seats from Assam, Tripura and Nagaland. The part ended with 101 MPs in the Upper House.
The Rajya Sabha has 245 members, the majority mark stands at 123.
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