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Elections For 57 Rajya Sabha Seats To Be Held On June 10

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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The Home Minister, during the launch of PM’s political journey titled ‘Modi@20: Dreams Meet Delivery’ in the national capital on Wednesday, recalled that Modi had interrupted an important meeting to make sure the hungry peacock got food.

The bird was tapping the glass with its beak while a meeting was in session at the PM’s office. After about a few minutes, PM Modi realised that the peacock was hungry and asked his staff to feed the bird, Mr Shah said, India Today reported. 

“To think about a peacock while engaged in such a serious meeting shows how sensitive he is,” he further added. 

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Despite Modi’s lack of experience, the latter was made the CM of an earthquake-prone state which he ran efficiently and won several reelections, Amit Shah said at the event. 

“PM Modi didn’t even have experience in running panchayat when he was made a CM to run an earthquake-marred state. Despite that, he won continuously and ran the state quite efficiently,” Shah was quoted as saying by ANI.

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