After two additional seats, NDA just four short of Rajya Sabha majority mark of 121

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NDA. to 117 just four short of the. majority mark. of 121 in the 240-member House once all 56 members are sworn in..

BJP remains the single largest party in RS with 97 members (including five nominated MPs who joined the party), followed by Congress with 29 members.. seats. for BJP - one each from Himachal Pradesh and UP due to cross-voting - will take the party's tally in Rajya Sabha to 97...

Forty-one of the 56 members got elected unopposed whereas 15 seats (10 in UP, four in Karnataka and one in HP) went to polls on Tuesday due to fielding of additional candidates by the NDA in three states..

During the biennial polls, the highest 10 seats were at stake in UP followed by six each in Maharashtra and Bihar; five each in Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal; four each in Karnataka and Gujarat; three each in Odisha, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan; and one each in Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and Chhattisgarh...

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