Voting will be held on Friday for 16 out of 57 Rajya Sabha seats. The political turmoil regarding this is at its peak. Of the 16 seats where elections are to be held, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Karnataka and Haryana are seats. In these states, the ruling party and the opposition have shifted their MLAs to hotels in an attempt to keep them united. At the same time, BJP-backed independent candidates in Rajasthan and Haryana can spoil the game of Congress.

Five candidates are in the fray for four Rajya Sabha seats in Rajasthan. The ruling Congress has fielded Mukul Wasnik, Pramod Tiwari and Randeep Surjewala. At the same time, BJP has nominated former minister Ghanshyam Tiwari as its candidate. However, she is supporting media businessman and independent candidate Subhash Chandra. Chandra has made the match interesting by entering the field. Here, the election being held in two seats in Haryana has been made interesting by BJP-backed independent candidate Karthikeya Sharma. Actually, BJP has 40 MLAs in the state. In such a situation, the victory of party candidate Krishna Lal Pawar is certain. At the same time, Congress has 31 MLAs, it is also claiming victory of its candidate Ajay Maken in the second seat. But, due to the displeasure of party MLA Kuldeep Vishnoi, the independent candidate has the upper hand.

At the same time, any party needs 31 votes to win the Rajya Sabha elections in Haryana. The total number of MLAs here is 90. Among these MLAs, BJP has 40, Congress 31, BJP's ally JJP has 10 and other independents are 09. However, before this 41 candidates have been elected unopposed in Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Punjab, Telangana, Jharkhand and Uttarakhand. Along with this, the Election Commission has appointed four special observers to stop horse trading.

Seven candidates are in the fray for six Rajya Sabha seats in Maharashtra. Union ministers Piyush Goyal, Anil Bonde, Dhananjay Mahadik (BJP), Praful Patel (NCP), Sanjay Raut and Sanjay Pawar (Shiv Sena) and Imran Pratapgarhi (Congress) are in the fray for six seats. The contest is between Mahadik of BJP and Pawar of Shiv Sena on the sixth seat. According to the numbers, BJP can win its two, Shiv Sena one and Congress one candidate. Here, the bail applications of NCP MLAs Nawab Malik and Anil Deshmukh were rejected. Both will not be able to vote in the Rajya Sabha elections.

In Rajasthan's 200-seat assembly, Congress can win two seats with its 108 MLAs and BJP can win one seat with 71 MLAs. After two seats, Congress will have 26 surplus votes and BJP will have 30 surplus votes. Congress needs 15 more votes (total 41) to win the third candidate. At the same time, 30 surplus votes of BJP and three (33) votes of RLP are with independent Subhash Chandra. He needs 41 votes to win, from which he is only eight votes away. Congress and BJP MLAs reached Jaipur from hotel and resort on Thursday evening.

In view of the Rajya Sabha elections in Karnataka, the Janata Dal (Secular) has sent 32 of its MLAs to a hotel for fear of horse-trading and cross-voting. Actually, six candidates are in the fray for four seats here. It is known that there are a total of 224 seats in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. BJP has 122 members. At the same time, Congress has 69 MLAs, while JDS has 32 MLAs. A candidate will need 45 votes to win in the Rajya Sabha elections. In such a situation, on the basis of numbers, BJP can win two seats and Congress can win one seat. The trick is for the fourth seat. For this seat, BJP has 32 votes, Congress has 24 votes and JDS has 32 votes. Therefore, no party has the necessary support for the fourth seat. Here, there is no agreement between Congress and JDS.