The Election Commission released the notification for the by-elections of the vacant Rajya Sabha seats, including three from Andhra Pradesh. The polling will be held on December 20 for the six vacancies from four states. The counting will be held on the same day.
In Andhra Pradesh, the by-elections will be held for the positions vacated by Mopidevi Venkatarama, Beedha Masthan Rao Yadav and Ryaga Krishnaiah. While Mopidevi and Beedha Masthan resigned from their posts on August August 29, Krishnaiah resigned on September 23.
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All three resigned MPs are from the YSR Congress Party and now, it is evident these three seats will be won by the TDP. In the Assembly elections, the TDP-JSP-BJP alliance won 164 out of 175 seats while YCP won only 11.
To win a Rajya Sabha seat, a contestant must get support from at least 25 MLAs. That will be impossible for YCP which has only 11 MLAs. Thus, it lost the opportunity to contest as well.
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Now, it has to be seen if TDP secures those three seats or will those seats be distributed between all three parties of the ND alliance.
YCP’s Rajya Sabha strength was 11 which it gained since 2019, after coming into power. On the other hand, TDP has none. Now, YCP’s strength decreased to eight and TDP or its ally parties may secure the rest of the three seats.
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On the other side, the by-elections will be held in three vacant seats from Odisha (Sujeet Kumar), West Bengal (Jawahar Sircar) and Haryana (Krishan Lal Panwar).
The notifications will be issued on December 3 and the last date for filing nominations is on December 10. December 13 is the deadline for the withdrawal of nominations. The polling will be held on December 20th from 9 am to 4 pm. The counting begins on the same day at 5 pm.
